ANT360H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Manual Labour, Gluttony, Total Institution
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Making the mindful body argument: how bodily discipline within the convent makes manifest tensions between embodied and transcendental selves while at the same time providing specific strategies for mangaging this tension. The institutional ethos becomes part of participants life. Strict compartmentalizing and magament of such practices of participants daily experiences. Practices that center on the control of the physical body are potent. Six areas of bodily experience: rhythm od daily life. Master sequence of activities that fill their day. They no longer control what they do and when it is done. The rhythm of the convent life is based in the practice of obience. Strict regulation of periods of activities and rest ; function to remind and reienforce they are noe operating in a different temporal orientarion. Submit their bodily eneregies to an outside authority: personal hygiene. Tidy body prerequisite for maintaining clean and tidy soul. Balance between cleanliness and not engaging in vanity.