ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Judith Butler, Body Politic, Sherry Ortner

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Amanda Joy

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Lecture 7: the body, gender and sexuality2016-09-17 9:17 pm. Key thinker: marcel mauss: 1872-1950, techniques of the body: highly developed body actions, taught and learned, vary across cultures, genders, classes, e. g. eating, walking, washing, sitting, swimming, climbing, child-rearing, driving, etc, further developed by sociologist pierre bourdieu. Some anthropological topics dealing with the body: health, illness, death, identity: race, gender, disability, etc, gender and sexuality, body modifications, sports, dance, pregnancy and childbirth, organ donation. One"s gender identity may not fall into a man/woman binary. Many consider gender to be a spectrum: sexuality- a person"s sexual orientation, preference or practices. Gender in anthropology: gender differences neglected in early anthropology, e. g. 3 analytical frameworks: the three bodies paradigm, individual body (phenomenology experienced individual body-self, social body (a natural symbol for thinking about relationships among nature, science and culture, body politic (an artifact of social and political. Film: how to survive a plague (2012: consider: depictions of bodies, gender and sexuality.