ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Gluttony, Homo Economicus, Marcel Mauss
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The body : emotions, techniques of the body. Why does your body feel clean/dirty, how is it correlated with your gender and sexuality and ethnicity and combined with the body. Walls between the stalls of the washrooms and toilets; ways of producing body and natural qualities of the body. For men, they will feel weird by peeing sitting down because they usually pee standing up (does not count taking a crap) We are in this body and then we learn about being in a body; how one learns to be in a body. Emotions tell us about culture and often proven in the body; we know we"re sad because tears are falling and trembling; in different cultures, there may be different ways to express emotions through body. Gendered way of being in a body; the body is always sculpted and trained into us.
