Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living traces patterns of consumption, calories, and chronic disease to tell a story about the enfolding––the absorption and regulation––of food in and about the body in Mumbai. Solomon’s book is a powerful ethnographic reflection on how factors held as exterior (local and global cuisine, evolving and competing norms regarding eating and body image) are wholly interiorized. We are happy to present a lively set of commentaries.
Meyers T. Book Forum––Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living: Food, Fat and The Absorption of Illness in India. Somatosphere. 2016. Available at: http://somatosphere.net/2016/book-forum-harris-solomons-metabolic-living-food-fat-and-the-absorption-of-illness-in-india.html/. Accessed April 25, 2019.
Meyers, Todd. 2016. Book Forum––Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living: Food, Fat and The Absorption of Illness in India. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2016/book-forum-harris-solomons-metabolic-living-food-fat-and-the-absorption-of-illness-in-india.html/ (accessed April 25, 2019).