ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Junk Food, Menstruation
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Emotional perturbed response to the different food combinations of different types of ethnic food that would go together; Purity and pollution; what is clean and what is unclean, and when it"s mixed, feeling of disgust or humour. So much food is edible but we put strange rules on them. Clean and unclean, edible or inedible, our food and their food. Hailing people into categories and into spatial categories. Arbitrary categories just by a bowl of rice. Come to recognize yourself into these categories. Bounded units (categories), masculinity, femininity; through borders and declarations of. Bodies and continent, proven by facts and then practice over and over again, then reified. Bounded categories are reinserted into culture, we produce difference, we reify culture. Grey areas become the taboo area, strong conjunction against these. Menstruation about the pollutedness of woman and spatial segregation; taboo keeps us from grey areas and teach us about dangers of males and females mixing together.
