ANTH 1001 Chapter 8: Chapter 8

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Kristin Bright

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Chapter 8: clothes do not merely protect us from the elements, for they also express cultural meanings and identities and serve as markers of status, age, and gender as well as occupation, activity, degree of formality, and a host of other things, like other nonverbal signs, these markers not only distinguish individuals and groups from each other, but also are a means for placing people in their social context, not only do clothes encode cultural values and social distinctions, but also they form a system there is sense and reason behind the composition of an outfit. , people in different societies fell quite differently about their bodies and its exposure, for, as cultural anthropology reveals, modesty is a learned behavior, not instinctual, modesty has particular salience in cultures influenced by the monotheistic,