Dans ce livre, l’anthropologue Rebecca Popenoe interroge l’embonpoint comme idéal de beauté féminine chez les semi-nomades arabophones de l’Azawagh. Feeding Desire and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. . Among a Saharan People by Rebecca Popenoe Paperback CDN$ Download Citation on ResearchGate | On Dec 1, , Brad L. Weiss and others published Feeding Desire: Fatness and Beauty in the Sahara Rebecca.
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Valeria rated it liked it Nov 22, Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan. Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Sophia rated it it was amazing Jan 07, Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women’s fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality.
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Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. It challenges readers to rethink their own feelings and aesthetics relating polenoe weight, and like all great ethnographies it leaves us with a deeper sense of mystery deside our own culture, at the same time that it gives us a sense of empathy and understanding for another culture that seems, at first, alien and strange.
Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women’s fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. No, cancel Yes, report it Thanks!
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It will change the way you think about fat, gender, and beauty. Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Popendoe’s research is thorough, her analysis comprehensive, and the result is a most interesting and welcome contribution to social studies revecca the body. I have used it in two different courses on Africa and students have responded very favorably to it.
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Monica Cheng rated it did not like it Feb 19, This is probably the dexire study we have of a society where young women are still secluded and fed in order to ‘fatten them up’ for marriage.