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Project

Towards an anthropology of anorexia nervosa: Meanings of thinness and dysfunctional eating among black females in Johannesburg.
Code
01D04519
Duration
01 October 2019 → 01 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Medical anthropology
    • Social and cultural anthropology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
medical anthropology eating disorders anorexia nervosa transcultural psychiatry
 
Project description

This research studies anorexia nervosa among women of the black population in Johannesburg.
The project aims for a culture-specific approach in understanding and treatment by abandoning
the prescriptive, Western-based DSM-criteria. Instead, it examines dysfunctional eating in
Johannesburg in its unique local context with regards to symptoms as well as their meanings