ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
1 Apr 2016
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Authenticity implies stasis and all societies are dynamic and changing: you can"t assume that people are unchanging, people are always changing. They are never in a little isolated bubble: the desire for authentic experiences and authentic people can be harmful. Ultimately (when writing the paper be cautious: there are no authentic, primitive people or primitive cultures, these representations are informed by cultural practices because they gave a market (or other) value. Identity: learned personal and social types of af liation that help us learn how to belong in society. Ex. age, gender, sexuality/sexual orientation, social class, nationally, race, ethnicity, religious/ spiritual identity. When sitting in a chair, women tend to take up less then men. They cross there legs especially when wearing a skirt. (postures and gestures that we learn in an unconscious or conscious way gender roles) Other examples of how the social role/identity of motherhood is shaped by cultural forces (in capitalists societies): any showers, shopping for baby.
