Episode 132 - Other People of Size

On this sponsored episode, Anna and Amber follow up on Episode 99 - People of Size to talk about largeness, muscularity, and fatness in bodies that are coded male. Learn how sumo wrestlers spend their time, join us for some Paleolithic bioanthropology by way of elite athletics, and sit in on a meeting of the Fat Mens’s Club.

• 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)

Image: Members of the Fat Men's Club of New York gather at a meeting, circa 1930.

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