ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Donna Haraway, Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu
16 Sep 2016
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Our only means for experiencing and being in the world. The ground of both perception and action. Sensory experiences- touch, taste, sight, sound, smell. Culturally diverse ideas of the body and self. The process in which people incorporate biologically the social and material world in which we live. We have culture muscle memory - our movements are habitual, but so is the way we perceive the world through our bodies. E. g. nodding with respect, women and men walking differently, manspreading, bowing head when walking past high social status person, etc. Our bodies are changed by culture- our bodies are necessary for perception, so culture influences the way we experience the world. E. g. the embodiment of social inequality- if you look at a body in poverty, you can tell by their bones, skin, etc. that they"re poor. Techniques of the body: highly developed body actions. E. g. eating, walking, washing, sitting, swimming, climbing, child-rearing, driving, etc.
