LEADER 05687oam 2200793I 450 001 9910786342403321 005 20230207214654.0 010 $a1-135-14085-5 010 $a1-283-84507-5 010 $a1-135-14077-4 010 $a0-203-60352-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203603529 035 $a(CKB)2670000000277177 035 $a(EBL)1075055 035 $a(OCoLC)821174409 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783264 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11453016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783264 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753110 035 $a(PQKB)11040924 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1075055 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1075055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10628890 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL415757 035 $a(OCoLC)823726619 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB132490 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000277177 100 $a20180706d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFeeding desire $efatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people /$fRebecca Popenoe 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-28096-6 311 $a0-415-28095-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aTalking about getting fat: leblu?h ?and al-gharrWhen 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 327 $aTies through menTribes; 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 327 $aAzawagh Arab bodiesMetaphorical 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" 327 $aHot and cold vs. Western biomedicineThe 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 330 $aWhile 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, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. 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