Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji

Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji
ISBN-10
0812290240
ISBN-13
9780812290240
Category
Social Science
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2013-11-25
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Anne E. Becker

Description

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.

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