Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji
Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji by Anne E. Becker
English | November 1995 | ISBN: 0812213971, 0812231805 | 224 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | November 1995 | ISBN: 0812213971, 0812231805 | 224 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
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.