ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liminality, Extermination Camp, Ethnography
4 Jul 2016
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Identity learned personal and social types of affiliation that helps us learn how to belong in society: examples: age, gender, sexuality, social class, nationality, race, etc. Anthropologists are interested in how culture shapes our identities. Identities are culturally constructed they are shaped by cultural forces and learned behaviours: can be good or bad we are not born into our identities, we can change them. We learn it during school, holidays, etc: imagined community: a sense of community in the absence of face-to-face interaction. Hockey in canada, fans of a musical group (5h) Medical tests that highlight the role of cultural forces in shaping motherhood as a social identity. Bond between mother and fetus/baby are constructed via technology. Lisa mitchell and rosalind petchesky: the politics of ultrasounds across north america: finding that the ultrasound helped give the doctor a certain amount of distance, check for fetus abnormalities, intersection of medical intervention and emotions.
