ANTB20H3 Lecture 10: lec10.docx

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You regulate yourself through institutions and their practice. * technologies or techniques of the body for both. Disciplinary practices in institutions in which we hold to regulate ourselves: care of the self through ways of creating better versions of ourselves through fasting, etc. = transformation - not important in this course. Boas argued that culture not biology makes us = debatable: culture served a lot of purpose in understanding human beings. Challenge the essentializing ideas of race and tradition found within a developmental model of evolution = culture define people belonging in that group. Burden of becoming a category that encapsulates the other" in essentializing ways. Both about: practice (habitus backgrounded knowledge that frames the way we behave) as well as what people consciously say about themselves. Used to speak about shared practices and ways of life specific to a group of people: publicly framing cultures as one belonging to a cultural group.

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