ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Basic Education Certificate Examination, Industrial Revolution, System On A Chip
27 Mar 2019
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Body imagery tells us about the social and cultural meanings of being human. We often consider our bodies to be machines. Reinforced when using things like fitbits, which outline our statistics using graphs a. Images that illustrate the body as various machines. Offers an example of using metaphor to describe the body -- our immune system. In this metaphor, "bodies are imperiled nations continuously at war to quell alien invader. Boundaries btwn self and other are key: the work of the immune system is to recognize s. "an important role for anthro is to use its techniques of comparative research to make pl cultural options that occur to people and therefore their contingency" The "question" of the body --how to study it, talk about it, understand what it means-- is diffic are a body,: we can talk about it and live in it. E. g. being in pain and having to explain the feeling and intensity of that pain.
