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Inside the Extreme Sport of Competitive Eating

  • Parkhurst Ferguson P
Contexts (2014) 13(3) 26-31
DOI: 10.1177/1536504214545756
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Abstract

Sociologist Priscilla Ferguson considers competitive eating as an expression of identifiably American connections between abundance and country. Overeating both honors country and transgresses social norms.

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Parkhurst Ferguson, P. (2014). Inside the Extreme Sport of Competitive Eating. Contexts, 13(3), 26–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504214545756

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