Steatopygia

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Steatopygie ( Greek στέαρ stéar , German 'fat' and πυγή pygē 'buttocks') or fat rump is a fat deposit on the rump or buttocks .

Concept history

Wife and husband of the Khoi Khoi . (Illustration from the Encycklopedia Powszechna by Samuel Orgelbrand 1900).

In the German language, the term was coined during the colonial era, as Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon defined in 1911:

"Steatopygīe (Greek), fat rump, excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks of the Hottentots and Bushwives ."

and Meyer's Großer Konversations-Lexikon 1909:

“Steatopygīe (Greek), excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks in various races, namely the female Hottentots [...], is said to have been peculiar to the prehistoric inhabitants of France ( Solutré period ) according to Piette . [...] "

Otto Dornblüth defined steatopygia in his clinical dictionary in 1927 as:

“The tendency towards fat accumulation at this point, which is already present in women, is particularly developed in some wild tribes (Hottentot and Bushwives). But also to e. Ivory figurines of the primitive people of Moustiers (old. Stone Age), called Venus von Moustiers . "

- Otto Dornblüth : Clinical Dictionary. 13./14. Edition. 1927.

Sarah Baartman gained greater fame when she was displayed in Europe as the "Hottentot Venus" and was medically dissected after her death. Today, the term is rejected in the context of " racial theories " and the colonial descriptions, especially of the so-called "Hottentots", as sexist - racist .

Medicine and zoology

The Roche medical lexicon defines steatomerism as “zonal obesity , obesity ”; in the narrower sense also as "the fatty bone (= steatopygia)" and "the femoral obesity (= steatotrochanteria)". In pathology , an increase in fat ( fat ridge ) in the sacral region is also called pygopegia , in zoology the insulating subcutaneous fat is also concentrated in the fat ridge as bumps or in individual body regions. In humans, the tendency to develop larger buttocks over the course of life is known as steatopygia.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ A. Hüter-Becker: Physical therapy, massage, electrotherapy and lymphatic drainage. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-13-136871-3 , p. 301. books.google.de
  3. ^ Steatopygīe . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition. Volume 2, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, p.  756 .
  4. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Volume 18. Leipzig 1909, p. 880. zeno.org
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  6. Jump up ↑ Like a Wild Beast: The Fate of Sarah Baartman. FAZ.net , January 31, 2006.
  7. ↑ Harald Haarmann : Black, a small cultural history. Lang, Frankfurt 2005, p. 88 books.google.de
  8. ↑ Eckhard Rohrmann: Myths and realities of being different. Springer 2007, p. 90. books.google.de
  9. ^ Ingo Warnke: German Language and Colonialism: Aspects of National Communication 1884 and 1919. Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 179. books.google.de
  10. ↑ Brigitte Fuchs: »Race«, »People«, Gender: Anthropological Discourses in Austria 1850-1960. Campus Verlag 2003, p. 44, books.google.de
  11. ↑ Steatomerie. In: Roche Lexicon Medicine . 5th edition. Urban & Fischer, 2003, accessed December 22, 2013.
  12. ^ Hans Bankl: Workbook Pathology. Volume 2: General Pathology. Facultas, 2002, p. 65.
  13. ↑ Lothar Dittrich: Animals in human care: Basics of zoo animal husbandry. 2007.