Fabricius, Christo; Koch, Eddie; Turner, Stephen; Magome, Hector

Rights Resources and Rural Development: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

This collection of essays examines obesity not as an objective medical or psychological problem, but as a subjective social and cultural phenomenon. The contributors take a cross-cultural perspective, examining both the negative casting of obesity in developed countries and the traditional view of obesity as a positive characteristic in subsistence societies which is threatened by the dominance of Western culture.