ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Marcel Mauss, Eating Disorder, Margaret C. Anderson
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Hugh brody describes a baby inuit girl as a reincarnation of her grandmother, and how adored she is because of that. Identity learned personal and social types of affiliation, including gender, sexuality, race, class, nationalism, and ethnicity, for example. Hugh brody the baby knows she is important from her birth, and this knowledge increases as she learned about her land, its creation, and her place in the world. Stories provide knowledge about life that is passed on to each generation hear the same stories but not everything is understood in the stories sense of wonderment. We are not born knowing who we are or our place is the social landscape; we learn consciously and unconsciously to be a version of ourselves. Our identities are political and collective, formed around struggles. When we form our identity, we know how we stand in relation to others. Identities like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, national identity are not natural or biological.
