Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2171789 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Warin (0000-0001-8766-1087, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), Megan J Warin |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-54 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13648470500516147 |
| PMID | 26868611 |
| OpenAlex | W1975563231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 32 |
Anthropological concepts of relatedness have not been addressed in any of the writings on anorexia, despite the literature being replete with negative connotations of sociality such as withdrawal, regression, and toxic families (in the form of 'obsessive mothers' or 'absent fathers'). As a departure to the vast literature on this topic, this multi-sited ethnographic project draws on the recent critiques and broadening of the concept of kinship to examine the ways in which a group of people with a diagnosis of anorexia understood and experienced relatedness in their everyday lives, that is, how they continually transformed connections by truncating, creating, sustaining and abandoning them. Those practices that are taken for granted as creating and sustaining relatedness-from the everyday practices of commensality to the capacity to have children-were consistently negated. Negating consensual avenues of relatedness did not leave these people in a void. On the contrary, new and productive meanings and experiences of being related were created and people entered into a relationship with anorexia that, in turn, tempered their relationships with their everyday worlds. In examining the 'relational matrix' of anorexia, new spaces of agency, ambiguity and power are illuminated
Agency (philosophy · Ambiguity · Anorexia · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Kinship · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
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Being an Anorectic versus Having Anorexia
To the horror of experts’
Saisir l’anorexie par le corps
Altering the Social
De-medicalizing anorexia
Embodied Progress
The Thin Woman
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Cultures of Relatedness
Food, sex, and pollution
Born and Bred
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
The Haunted Flesh
Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Miasmatic Calories and Saturating Fats
Secret Societies and Secret Collectives
Beyond this mortal coil
Technologies of Procreation
The thin woman
Embodied Progress
The practice of everyday life
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Defacement
The perils of health promotion and the 'barebacking' backlash
Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality in Anorexia
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
"The Case of "Riding Bareback
The Gender of the Gift
The Office of Reason
Ambiguating Agency
Bareback Sex, Bug Chasers, and the Gift of Death
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |