Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye discusses her cross-cultural study of fat stigma

Is the West teaching the developing world to stigmatize fat people?
New Republic: Eileen Anderson-Fye, the Robson Junior Professor of Anthropology, discussed her cross-cultural study of fat stigma. “I started to [look] at these strong stigmatizing beliefs around obese bodies, in places where heavier bodies used to mean health and wealth and well-being,” she said.