Body image, body size, and Samoan ecological and individual modernization

Ecology of Food Nutrition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-120

  Brewis, A A ^a   Mcgarvey, S T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Body image; Eating disorders; Modernization; Polynesia; Samoans

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MODERNIZATION; WESTERN WORLD;

AMERICAN SAMOA; AUCKLAND; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; SAMOA;

EID: 0033812477     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2000.9991609     Document Type: Article

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