ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alan Dundes, Social Anthropology, Susanne Langer
25 Aug 2016
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Anthropology 1001 week 9 lecture notes (our body, our selves) Song played in lecture: all about that bass (meghan trainor) Relevance: contrasting ideals in society that you have to be thin to be beautiful, says that you"re beautiful from the bottom from the top. " fat acceptance activism movement (google rick owens, spring. However this can alternatively be seen as thin-shaming, rather than being all-accepting. Title: our bodies, our selves cites a text from 1973, boston women"s health collective to provide information about women"s bodies. Introduced theory of social construction into social sciences. Concepts of others actions habitualized as roles institutionalized as perceptions. Naturalization = process of making something that is socially and symbolically constructed (kinship, language, gender) seem like a fact of nature". Naturalizing power ways in which differences of power are made to seem natural or timeless. Deconstructing power process of revealing social reproduction of power (how it"s made in symbols, language, ritual, performances of the body, etc. )
