Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India - Couverture souple

Solomon, Harris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822361019 ISBN 13 : 9780822361015

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harris Solomon is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822361019
• ISBN 13: 9780822361015
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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