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2020 Carol R. Ember Book Prize

Cover image of Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Anthropological Sciences
Award Level: | Award Year: 2020
Award: Carol R. Ember Book Prize
Winner(s): Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health by Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich

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Alexandra Brewis
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Alexandra Brewis, PhD

Alexandra Brewis (TEMPE, AZ) is a President's Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where Brewis founded the Center for Global Health. Brewis is the author of Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives and is a coauthor of Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight and Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery.

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