Med Anthropol. 2013;32(2):109-25. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2012.671399.
This article explores diabetes mellitus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with an analysis of gift exchange and hospitality revealing how rapid environmental and economic transformations have led to chronicities of physical activity, food, and stress; uniting at a critical point in time to produce chronicities of modernity that precipitate diabetes. The high value of commensality and the association between food (particularly sugar) and honor offers insight into the motives for both the quantity and quality of food consumed. Emirati understandings of self and disease confirm the anthropological adage that disease and illness are not the same and suggests there is the potential to stem the growth of diabetes in the UAE with greater attention to structural issues through an anthropological understanding of the sociocultural conditions in which it thrives.
本文探讨了阿联酋的糖尿病问题，通过对礼品交换和款待的分析，揭示了环境和经济的快速变化如何导致身体活动、食物和压力的慢性化；在一个关键时刻结合在一起，产生了导致糖尿病的现代性的慢性化。共餐的高价值以及食物（特别是糖）和荣誉之间的联系，揭示了人们对所食用食物的数量和质量的动机。阿联酋人对自我和疾病的理解证实了人类学的格言，即疾病和疾病并不相同，并表明通过对糖尿病赖以生存的社会文化条件进行人类学理解，关注结构性问题，有可能遏制阿联酋糖尿病的增长。
