Body, Self, and Society : : The View from Fiji / / Anne E. Becker.
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 th...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 33 illus. |
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