The Dirt Podcast

Other People of Size - Ep 132

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A follow-up and expansion to episode 99, People of Size, Anna and Amber explore other categories of largeness and how they’re represented in the archaeological record. We discuss fat bodies that are coded male, the strength and bulk of sumo wrestlers, and cultural and historical shifts in the aesthetic of the male body.

Links

  • Professor Chris Forth on fatness (University of Kansas)
  • Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy (Herman Pontzer)
  • Japanese Sumo Wrestling (The Independent)
  • Shinto origins of sumo (Wikipedia)
  • The sumo diet (sumo.usa)
  • Average body fat percentage (Wikipedia)
  • How Strong Were Ancient People? (Discover Magazine)
  • Late Pleistocene swimmers compared to modern athletes (Journal of Human Evolution)
  • The male image in art history (Artsy.com)
  • The forgotten history of fat men’s clubs (NPR)
  • Anatomy of The Incredible Hulk (Scientific American)
  • Using X Men to teach about hominin speciation (Great Lakes Ethnohistorian)

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