In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than
underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity
as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health
systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many
societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering
because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages
about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a
seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded
in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of
ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the
human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms
of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities
of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United
States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades,
Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why
obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are so much
more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways that
anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based
research to address the serious public health and social justice
concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity.
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