SA 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Our Bodies, Ourselves, Muslim Holidays

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Michael Hathaway

Document Summary

Time commodity to use rather than how life is lived: way ppl are oriented (ex. when to do what) -> time zones. Three analogies of time: river: keeps going, pendulum: goes back and forth (night and day, cyclical: goes in a circle (seasons, muslim calendar: begins w/ muhammad"s migration from mecca to medina. Cultural schemas (like maps: lunar cycles instead of solar, muslim holidays, gregorian calendar ordered by workdays vs. holidays. Daily life ordered by work hours vs. off-work hours, workdays vs. weekends; yearly schedule. Work and leisure spatialized; work in one area, leisure in another. Task orientation, three major qualities: more humanly comprehensible than timed labour, least separation b/w work and life, wasteful/lack urgency to those who work under clock. Purpose of body: occupy space, experience sensual world, and interact yet the body doesn"t exist. Tattoos: identity of sexual excitement and rebellion against bourgeois society. Habitus: acquired ability but more than habit.