SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre Bourdieu, Palliative Care, Parenting
2 Nov 2016
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Analytical approaches to understanding the body (week 4, september 27, 2016) Patient, at risk, terminally ill, drug addict, stage 4 cancer, palliative care, physically disabled, mentally ill, adhd, add, healthy, unhealthy etc. Constrained by the social body and representational realities. The political body is reflected in the way diseased/healthy bodies are socially produced. The subject of much anthropological attention involves understanding the body as an object of sociocultural processes, and the physical body as an expression of, and metaphor of the body. Anthropological studies of the body in the post-colonial states have analyzed the body as a site of both oppression and resistance. Strong line between natural and supernatural show continued unease in anthropological approaches to enchantment. Analysis of porch as: a liminal space, a gendered space, reflecting changing role of women, reflecting looser class divisions. Analysis helps us to work through meaning and relationship between historical moments, social, political. Analysis: a step beyond description or observation.
