EAGER: Ethnographic Investigation of Fat Stigma in Three Countries

EAGER：三个国家对肥胖耻辱的民族志调查

• 批准号: 1244944
• 负责人: Eileen Anderson-Fye
• 金额: $ 3.45万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1244944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Ethnographic; Investigation; Fat; Stigma

This award is an Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER). The project will provide the first data closely exploring the changing meanings that people attach to being overweight ("fat stigma") in the developing world. The PIs are building a conceptual model of the relationship between obesity stigma and upward mobility as mediated by symbolic body capital that can be applied cross-culturally. They hypothesize a tipping point of economic prosperity where the idea of fatness as an undesirable personal and social characteristic begins to proliferate. In this phase of the project they will evaluate ethnographically the key concepts that that they will test with more extensive survey-based research in a later phase. The growing global prevalence of obesity is associated with increased engagement in the global economy, affecting diet and work patterns. At the same time there appears an increase in stigma against overweight even in societies that traditionally valued larger bodies. Little is known about the predictors and processes of the rise of fat stigma. Even less is understood about changing understandings of shifts in body size, body size ideals, and fat stigma. The researchers will collect ethnographic data in a typically upwardly mobile segment of these populations -- university students -- as well as among their non-student age-matched peers. They will conduct participant-observation on university campuses and in community sites in Belize, Jamaica, and Nepal, three countries that vary in obesity rates, wealth, and culture. Interviews will be conducted with infomants matched by age (18-25) and gender in each of the six sites (for a total of 120 interviews). They will also conduct a survey of a larger sample.Findings from this research will contribute to theory on embodiment, moral personhood, and social transition. They will also inform health-promotion programs and provide timely opportunities for two-way international educational collaborations in cultural anthropology. Three graduate students and two undergraduate students will be engaged in data collection, and two graduate students and two undergraduate students will assist in data coding and analysis.

该奖项是探索性研究早期概念补助金（EAGER）。该项目将提供第一批数据，密切探索发展中国家人们对超重（“肥胖耻辱”）的不断变化的含义。 PI正在建立一个概念模型，肥胖耻辱感和向上流动之间的关系，作为中介的象征性身体资本，可以应用于跨文化。他们假设经济繁荣的一个临界点，肥胖作为一种不受欢迎的个人和社会特征的想法开始扩散。 在项目的这一阶段，他们将从民族学角度评估关键概念，并在稍后阶段通过更广泛的基于调查的研究来测试这些概念。 肥胖症在全球范围内的日益流行与全球经济的参与程度增加有关，影响到饮食和工作模式。 与此同时，即使在传统上重视较大身体的社会中，对超重的耻辱感似乎也在增加。 人们对肥胖污名化的预测因素和过程知之甚少。 更少的是了解改变对身体大小，身体大小的理想，和脂肪耻辱的变化的理解。 研究人员将收集这些人群中一个典型的向上移动的部分--大学生--以及他们的非学生年龄匹配的同龄人的人种学数据。 他们将在伯利兹、牙买加和尼泊尔的大学校园和社区进行参与观察，这三个国家的肥胖率、财富和文化各不相同。将在六个地点的每一个地点对年龄（18-25岁）和性别相匹配的信息人进行访谈（共120次访谈）。 他们还将进行更大样本的调查。这项研究的结果将有助于对化身，道德人格和社会转型的理论。 它们还将为健康促进计划提供信息，并为文化人类学的双向国际教育合作提供及时的机会。 三名研究生和两名本科生将从事数据收集，两名研究生和两名本科生将协助进行数据编码和分析。