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  • Fat in Four Cultures

    A Global Ethnography of Weight

    by Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and connect to others. In recent years, "fat" has emerged as a shared anchor in defining who belongs and is valued versus who does not and is not. The stigma surrounding weight transcends many social, cultural, political, and economic divides. The concern over body image shapes not only how we see ourselves, but ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Extreme Weight Loss

    Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery

    by Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich ...
    A study that explores patients’ perspectives on a life-altering surgeryBariatric surgery rates around the world have increased exponentially over the past decade. In Extreme Weight Loss, anthropologists Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich provide us with an inside look at how patients experience this medical procedure, as well as its far-reaching and complex personal implications ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Foundations of Biosocial Health

    Stigma and Illness Interactions

    by Bayla Ostrach, Nicholas Emard, Theodore Gideonse, Seung Yong Han, Ruthanne Marcus, Gerald McKinley, Mary A. Ott, Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer0, Kara Wools-Kaloustian1, Amber Wutich2, Shir Lerman Ginzburg4, Harrison M.K. Maithya5, Merrill Singer7 ...
    The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Applied Anthropology of Obesity

    Prevention, Intervention, and Identity

    by Alexandra G. Lancey, Chad T. Morris, Jose B. Rosales Chavez, Zuhra Malik, Elizabeth Serieux, Alejandro Tecum, Amy Borovoy, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Stacy Sobell0, Amber Wutich1, Lillie Dao2, Merrill Eisenberg3, Constanza Carney4, Amanda Wolfe5, Deborah Williams6, Sarah Womack7, Margaret Everett8, Moya L. Alfonso9, Stevenson Kuartei0, Alexandra Brewis1, Sean Bruna2, Emily Bissett3, John S. Luque4, Sara Arias-Steele5, Charles H. Klein6, Sarah Trainer7, Colleen O’Brien Cherry8 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $105.29 USD