What can the body tell us about culture?
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- What can the body tell us about culture?
- Gender
- 1. Pedwell (2010): physical embodiment of practices and adoption of habits corresponding to gender roles
- maintenance beyond personal truth, e.g. gender dysmorphia (Juno Dawson)
- Judith Butler corroborates: gender is performative
- "what we take to be an internal essence of gender is manufactured through a sustained set of acts, posited through the gendered stylisation of the body"
- Judith Butler corroborates: gender is performative
- maintenance beyond personal truth, e.g. gender dysmorphia (Juno Dawson)
- 2. Moira Gatens (1996) examines culture-specific "imaginary" bodies created as ideals"
- highlights roles of m/f bodies in W soc: f = "envelope, vessel or receptacle" home to penis and baby
- analysis of Freud's post-oepidal view of women = they're inherently incomplete "socially constructed as partial and lacking"
- this view affects socialisation and habitus of women in sox as self-worth, image, actions, speech, ambitions taught to focus on goal of nuclear family
- analysis of Freud's post-oepidal view of women = they're inherently incomplete "socially constructed as partial and lacking"
- highlights roles of m/f bodies in W soc: f = "envelope, vessel or receptacle" home to penis and baby
- THR4: body can tell us + about cultural ideas of gender through way it is expressed in people
- 1. Pedwell (2010): physical embodiment of practices and adoption of habits corresponding to gender roles
- Class
- 1. Judith Okeley (1978) cultivation of elite girls in boarding school: embodying gender culture but adding another POV
- Outlines methods of skl to produce 'debutante' girls to marry rich and be housewives: "marriage was the ultimate vocation", internalise habitus to exhibit privilege
- girls involved are elite and separated from everyone lower in "social hierarchy"
- key embodiment 1: accent, a "sign and a weapon"
- key embodiment 2: "consciously made to sit, stand, and move in uniform ways"
- girls involved are elite and separated from everyone lower in "social hierarchy"
- Outlines methods of skl to produce 'debutante' girls to marry rich and be housewives: "marriage was the ultimate vocation", internalise habitus to exhibit privilege
- 2. Stephanie Lawler (2005) class is a social marker (UK)
- have "classed identity" whereby "class is understood [...] as something we are"
- Example = 'chavs' (council housed and violent)
- James Delingpole article commented:
- "The reason Vicky Pollard [Little Britain] caught the public imagination is that she embodies with such fearful accuracy several of the great scourges of contemporary Britain"
- she's a chav, in velvet tracksuit, high pony, hoop earrings, she embodies all social conceptions about chavs, who form part of the underclass
- "The reason Vicky Pollard [Little Britain] caught the public imagination is that she embodies with such fearful accuracy several of the great scourges of contemporary Britain"
- James Delingpole article commented:
- Wider social acceptances regarding behaviour of elites and working classes (chavs) see how body tells us about the concept of class in culture
- 1. Judith Okeley (1978) cultivation of elite girls in boarding school: embodying gender culture but adding another POV
- Ritual
- 1. Robert Hertz: left and right handedness throughout cultural history has exhibited a persistent inequality around exaltation of R hand as pure and condemntion of L hand as polluted
- idea from Mary Douglas's work on purity and pollution, highlights the use of the body in expression of ritual observance/ belief
- 2. Joel Inbody: sensing God in Pentecostal ritual expressing it bodily
- records open embodied participation (pentecostal worship is experience of God through your body) and external effects of emotional connection
- accounts "gossebumps, tingling, shivers, chills, or heat" experienced by worshippers
- records open embodied participation (pentecostal worship is experience of God through your body) and external effects of emotional connection
- see impact of ritual on the body and gain insight into cult phenomenon because of "the way that the body can provide a metaphor of social organisation" (john Blacking)
- 1. Robert Hertz: left and right handedness throughout cultural history has exhibited a persistent inequality around exaltation of R hand as pure and condemntion of L hand as polluted
- Gender
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