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Titre :
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Girls' work is stomach work: female fatness, sexuality, and society among the Azawagh arabs moors of Niger : en 2 volumes
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Auteurs :
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Popenoe, Rebecca C.
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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University of Chicago, 1997
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Format :
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Vol.1, 330p.; 30cm
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Index. décimale :
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305.4
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Catégories :
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Thèse de doctorat-Anthropologie
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Mots-clés:
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Femme
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Moeurs
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Sexualité
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Azawagh
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Niger
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Résumé :
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For centuries saharan moors have valued a female bodily aesthetic of extreme corpulence which women achieve by undergoing years of forced fattening as girls. From the time the first milk teeth fall out through puberty, girls are enjoined to ingest large quantities of milk and porridge everyday, under the watchful eye of an appoineted female relative, often a grandmother or aunt. Girls are usually married at or soon after puberty, and continue to maintain their flesh figures through adulthood by continuing to literally stuff their mouths wiyj large quantities of grain or porridge which they then swallow down with water or milk.
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