Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji

by Anne E. Becker

Book Overview

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 their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812213971
• ISBN13: 9780812213973
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"