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Feeding desire : fatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people /
While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: There is more to beauty than meets the eye
- Beauty universals and cultural particulars
- Fatness and fattening cross-culturally
- Preview of the book
- PART I Entering the field
- 1 Coming into the Azawagh
- The Azawagh
- Who are the "Azawagh Arabs"?
- Peace Corps prelude: Tchin Tabaraden
- Fieldwork: Tassara
- Stasis and change
- 2 Getting fat
- Travelers and explorers, 1352-1936
- French colonial officials in the Azawagh
- Anthropologists on fattening in the Sahara
- Getting fat in the Azawagh today
- Aichatou
- Talking about getting fat: leblūḥ and al-gharr
- When does fattening begin?
- Who fattens?
- What to eat?
- Why fatten?
- PART II Self-representations
- 3 In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever merciful
- The centrality of Islam in Azawagh Arab life
- Islam and Islams
- The world Allah made
- Islam and the body
- Islam, gender, and the social fabric
- Structures of Islamic life
- Spirits
- Heaven, and heaven on earth
- Abetting God's order
- Lived Islam
- 4 Ties of blood, ties of milk, ties of marriage
- Kith and kin in daily life
- Ahmed and Aminatou
- The challenges of marriage
- Ties of blood
- Ties through men
- Tribes
- Ties through women
- Milk kinship
- Kinship and sentiment
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Weddings
- Fattening and marriage
- 5 "The men bring us what we will eat": herding, trade, and slavery
- Material value and aesthetic values
- Honor and pride
- Caste in Moor society: slaves, freed slaves, artisans, and Arabs
- Slavery
- A license to leisure: women's "work"
- Subsisting in the Sahara: men's work
- Investment of milk from cows in women
- Imbuing life with value
- PART III Veiled logics.
- 6 The interior spaces of social life: bodies of men, bodies of women
- Male bodies and female bodies
- Azawagh Arab bodies
- Metaphorical bodies
- The connectedness of bodies to the world around them
- The connectedness of bodies to non-bodily domains
- Willful bodies
- Heavenly bodies
- 7 The exterior spaces of social life: tent and desert
- Orienting oneself in the world
- The gendered geography of everyday life
- The tent: women's world
- Engendering space: center and periphery, stasis and movement
- Engendering space: placehood
- Town and desert: women's changing worlds
- PART IV Negotiating life's challenges
- 8 Well-being and illness
- Understanding disease: "hot" and "cold"
- Hot and cold vs. Western biomedicine
- The social consequences of hot and cold
- Open women, closed men
- Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum
- The daily diet
- Sex
- Mind and body, women and men
- Exercising agency
- 9 Beauty, sex, and desire
- A review of the argument
- Socializing sexuality
- Feeding desire
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.