ANT360H5 Lecture 6: lec 6
Document Summary
Embodiment paradigm methodoligcal orientation that requires the body to be understood as existental grounds of culture. Field defined by perceptual experience and made presence and engagement. Formative practices of religious community of convention in mexico. We cannot adequately theorize about subject formation with simultaneously therorizing processes of gendering and dynamic embodiment. A detailed ethnograghic account of the self concious systematic use of bodily practices to reshape the gendered self within elaborated system of meaning. Lester wants to take seriously what ppl say about their belief , avoiding relativism. Situtating what she is told in it"s relative context ; renders what she is told as true theortical and methodological difficulties with more intangible experences of belief and meaning. Troubles with understanding how people explain vocation and the calling as people explain their experiences. Not all poor and have nothing to do. Must all get along ; social preformance rules. Have to give up secular desires ( worldy things)
