Steve Ferzacca
Biographic Data
| ID | 119867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Ferzacca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferzacca |
| SIGNATURE | FERZACCA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Noisy Places, Noisy People: Trouble and Meaning in Singapore
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and …
The Role of Women in Food Provision and Food Choice Decision-Making in Singapore: A Case Study
As countries develop economically and increasing numbers of women enter the workforce, children are partly being cared for by someone other than their mother. Little is known about the impact of this shift in child-care provider on children's nutrition. This study presents findings from a case study of Singapore, a small country that has experienced phenomenal economic growth. Focus groups were conducted with 130 women of varying educational leve…
Sometimes they’ll tell me what they want”: Family and inter-generational food preferences in the food decisions of Singaporean women
Diabetes and Culture
Diabetes and its many manifestations articulate well with the four-field approach in anthropology, providing an almost seamless example of the relationship between human biology, behavior, society, and culture in both the past and the present tense. In general, publications on diabetes and culture echo Enlightenment philosophies on change and progress that posit the increasing prevalence of diabetes as a "crisis in human relations" ( Bendix 1967 …
Clifford Geertz by his colleagues – Shweder, Richard A. & Byron Good
Learning How to Listen: Kroncong Music in a Javanese Neighborhood
In this article I consider several weeks of music rehearsals that took place in an urban neighborhood in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. The music “rehearsed” by a group of men is kroncong; an urban folk music incorporating a string band, flute, vocals and sometimes a keyboard that in Indonesia dates to the arrival of the Portuguese and the establishment of urban enclaves of traders and slaves in the sixteenth century along the north coast of …
Lived Food and Judgments of Taste at A Time of Disease
Medical nutritional therapy (MNT) is a key feature of treatment for and management of type 2 diabetes. There are two elements to this therapeutic approach: collecting a diet history and prescribing therapeutic diets. For the clinical encounters observed in this paper, MNT often became a source of conflict between practitioners and patients. As clinicians endeavor to collect accurate information regarding food choices and eating so as to offer app…
A Javanese Metropolis and Mental Life
This article examines the practice of some Javanese men that they refer to as "the search for empty thoughts." Grounded in their experiences as working-class men, empty thoughts capture and are captured by thoroughly modern stories of the ups and downs of city life that emphasize the effect of stres (stress) on mental life. Empty thoughts, as an expressive idiom and social practice, are remarkable in their mimetic faculty of Simmel's latest trans…
Actually, I Don't Feel That Bad: Managing Diabetes and the Clinical Encounter
A major issue for persons treating and managing adult-onset diabetes (NIDDM) is the "problem of compliance." I consider the clinical encounter in the overall context of diabetes management as a punctuated experience focused on the cultivation of an ideal self whose "technologies" and "ethics of self-care" mimic a capitalist logic that links self-discipline, productivity, and health. Both clinicians and their patients share and identify with many …
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo. Jay Bernstein. Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener Publishers, Inc., 1997. xiv. 209 pp., figures, preface, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index
Actually, I Don't Feel That Bad: Managing Diabetes and the Clinical Encounter
A major issue for persons treating and managing adult-onset diabetes (NIDDM) is the "problem of compliance." I consider the clinical encounter in the overall context of diabetes management as a punctuated experience focused on the cultivation of an ideal self whose "technologies" and "ethics of self-care" mimic a capitalist logic that links self-discipline, productivity, and health. Both clinicians and their patients share and identify with many …
Diabetes and Culture
Diabetes and its many manifestations articulate well with the four-field approach in anthropology, providing an almost seamless example of the relationship between human biology, behavior, society, and culture in both the past and the present tense. In general, publications on diabetes and culture echo Enlightenment philosophies on change and progress that posit the increasing prevalence of diabetes as a "crisis in human relations" ( Bendix 1967 …
Lived Food and Judgments of Taste at A Time of Disease
Medical nutritional therapy (MNT) is a key feature of treatment for and management of type 2 diabetes. There are two elements to this therapeutic approach: collecting a diet history and prescribing therapeutic diets. For the clinical encounters observed in this paper, MNT often became a source of conflict between practitioners and patients. As clinicians endeavor to collect accurate information regarding food choices and eating so as to offer app…
A Javanese Metropolis and Mental Life
This article examines the practice of some Javanese men that they refer to as "the search for empty thoughts." Grounded in their experiences as working-class men, empty thoughts capture and are captured by thoroughly modern stories of the ups and downs of city life that emphasize the effect of stres (stress) on mental life. Empty thoughts, as an expressive idiom and social practice, are remarkable in their mimetic faculty of Simmel's latest trans…
Sometimes they’ll tell me what they want”: Family and inter-generational food preferences in the food decisions of Singaporean women
Learning How to Listen: Kroncong Music in a Javanese Neighborhood
In this article I consider several weeks of music rehearsals that took place in an urban neighborhood in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. The music “rehearsed” by a group of men is kroncong; an urban folk music incorporating a string band, flute, vocals and sometimes a keyboard that in Indonesia dates to the arrival of the Portuguese and the establishment of urban enclaves of traders and slaves in the sixteenth century along the north coast of …
Actually, I Don't Feel That Bad: Managing Diabetes and the Clinical Encounter
A major issue for persons treating and managing adult-onset diabetes (NIDDM) is the "problem of compliance." I consider the clinical encounter in the overall context of diabetes management as a punctuated experience focused on the cultivation of an ideal self whose "technologies" and "ethics of self-care" mimic a capitalist logic that links self-discipline, productivity, and health. Both clinicians and their patients share and identify with many …
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo. Jay Bernstein. Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener Publishers, Inc., 1997. xiv. 209 pp., figures, preface, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index
A Javanese Metropolis and Mental Life
This article examines the practice of some Javanese men that they refer to as "the search for empty thoughts." Grounded in their experiences as working-class men, empty thoughts capture and are captured by thoroughly modern stories of the ups and downs of city life that emphasize the effect of stres (stress) on mental life. Empty thoughts, as an expressive idiom and social practice, are remarkable in their mimetic faculty of Simmel's latest trans…
Lived Food and Judgments of Taste at A Time of Disease
Medical nutritional therapy (MNT) is a key feature of treatment for and management of type 2 diabetes. There are two elements to this therapeutic approach: collecting a diet history and prescribing therapeutic diets. For the clinical encounters observed in this paper, MNT often became a source of conflict between practitioners and patients. As clinicians endeavor to collect accurate information regarding food choices and eating so as to offer app…
Clifford Geertz by his colleagues – Shweder, Richard A. & Byron Good
Learning How to Listen: Kroncong Music in a Javanese Neighborhood
In this article I consider several weeks of music rehearsals that took place in an urban neighborhood in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. The music “rehearsed” by a group of men is kroncong; an urban folk music incorporating a string band, flute, vocals and sometimes a keyboard that in Indonesia dates to the arrival of the Portuguese and the establishment of urban enclaves of traders and slaves in the sixteenth century along the north coast of …
Diabetes and Culture
Diabetes and its many manifestations articulate well with the four-field approach in anthropology, providing an almost seamless example of the relationship between human biology, behavior, society, and culture in both the past and the present tense. In general, publications on diabetes and culture echo Enlightenment philosophies on change and progress that posit the increasing prevalence of diabetes as a "crisis in human relations" ( Bendix 1967 …
Sometimes they’ll tell me what they want”: Family and inter-generational food preferences in the food decisions of Singaporean women
The Role of Women in Food Provision and Food Choice Decision-Making in Singapore: A Case Study
As countries develop economically and increasing numbers of women enter the workforce, children are partly being cared for by someone other than their mother. Little is known about the impact of this shift in child-care provider on children's nutrition. This study presents findings from a case study of Singapore, a small country that has experienced phenomenal economic growth. Focus groups were conducted with 130 women of varying educational leve…
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and …
Noisy Places, Noisy People: Trouble and Meaning in Singapore
Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (3 works) · Food choice (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)