Body, Self, and Society : the View from Fiji
Anne E. Becker (Author)
Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own
eBook, English, 1996
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa., 1996
1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
9780812290240, 0812290240
1013954261
In English
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