HINDU PUNJABIS NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCE
Laurie Taylor talks to Dhooleka S. Raj, an anthropologist who grew up in Canada’s multi-cultural society and subsequently lived in Britain for seven years.Ìý In her new book Dhooleka Raj examines how the question where are you from? produces contrasting responses in different societies.
FATNESS and DESIRE
Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality as experienced by a Saharan people is part of a new study, by Rebecca Popenoe, that examines ways in which women are fattened in order to simultaneously heighten and control desire.
Laurie Taylor is joined by and Nigel Barley to discuss the nature of bodily ideas and desire.
Additional information
Dhooleka S. Raj
Fellow-Commoner , University of Cambridge and Principle Health Research Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute
Where are you from?: Middle class migrants in the modern world
University of California Press
ISBN 0520233832
Anthropologist,
Feeding Desire - Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality among a Saharan People
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ISBN 0415280966
Nigel Barley
Anthropologist and writer and formely Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
Penguin Books ISBN 0140095365
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