@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hjkr6.6,
 ISBN = {9780812213973},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hjkr6.6},
 abstract = {The following inquiry into the relationship of embodied experience to the social context of selfhood unfolds from an ethnographic paradox and a clinical puzzle. My arrival in Nahigatoka for doctoral research in anthropology was greeted with enthusiasm and then perplexity on the part of my Fijian hosts on hearing about my interest in their interest in body shape. They were not, they politely clarified, especially attuned to body shape. This occasioned my own equal perplexity, in turn, since I had spent the previous months framing a study on what I felt was nothing short of a cultural preoccupation with food,},
 bookauthor = {Anne E. Becker},
 booktitle = {Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji},
 pages = {1--6},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {Introduction},
 year = {1995}
}