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Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Harris Solomon
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Paperback. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; MFGM; MJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
The popular narrative of globesity posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of ... Read more
The popular narrative of globesity posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361015
SKU
V9780822361015
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About Harris Solomon
Harris Solomon is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University.
Reviews for Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Metabolic Living is a rich, ambitious book whose theoretical and ethnographic model builds bridges across chapters with disparate topics and actors. . . . For readers curious about how to research and write the complexities of embodiment - and are open to experimenting with how to get there - Metabolic Living is a productive and exhilarating read.
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