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The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based
non-communicable disease has many causes, including food
availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic
predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms
surrounding body composition; and policies affecting production,
distribution, and consumption of food locally and globally. The
Applied Anthropology of Obesity: Prevention, Intervention, and
Identity advances understanding of the many cultural factors
underlying increased global obesity prevalence. This collection of
chapters showcase the value of anthropology's holistic approach to
human interaction by exploring how human identity associated with
obesity/overweight is affected by cultural norms, policy decisions,
and perceptions of cultural change. They also demonstrate best
practices for the application of anthropological skillsets to
develop culturally-appropriate nutritional behavior change across
multiple levels of analysis, from local programming to policy
decisions at local and national levels. In addition to soliciting
explanatory models used by respondents in different cultures and
situations, anthropologists find themselves on the front lines of
public health and policy attempts at affecting behavioral change.
As such, this applied-focused volume will be of utility to scholars
and practitioners in applied and medical anthropology, as well as
to scholars and professionals in public health and other
disciplines. The volume's authors are professional and student
anthropologists from both public health practice and academia.
Chapters are geographically diverse, containing lessons learned
from attempts to combat obesity by anthropologically focusing on
culture, history, economy, and power relative to obesity causation,
prevention, and intervention. The Applied Anthropology of Obesity:
Prevention, Intervention, and Identity candidly provides rich
information about social identity, obesity, and treatment.
Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and
women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return
home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In
attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face
a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior
expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of
behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of
nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of
family life but also of public life in Japan? "The Too-Good Wife
"follows the experiences of a group of middle-class women in Tokyo
who participated in a weekly support meeting for families of
substance abusers at a public mental-health clinic. Amy Borovoy
deftly analyzes the dilemmas of being female in modern Japan and
the grace with which women struggle within a system that supports
wives and mothers but thwarts their attempts to find fulfillment
outside the family. The central concerns of the book reach beyond
the problem of alcoholism to examine the women's own processes of
self-reflection and criticism and the deeper fissures and
asymmetries that undergird Japanese productivity and social order.
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