ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Multiracial, Social Mobility, Wage Labour

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Reading 183-184 ideals: kids ages 6-9 describes thin silhouette as kind, happy and polite, heavier silhouette as lying, lazy, and cheating, teachers view heavier children as having more behavioural problems. Crystallization: the way that various cultural logics and values comes (cid:498)crystallization of culture(cid:499) in body ideals pg. 189 together, and sustain each other, in (cid:498)real(cid:499)(cid:495) embodied form through body. E. g. the tyranny of slenderness in north america. Cultural logics for azawagh arabs: islamic, economic (men work faraway), and status. General disdain for body over mind, fear of loss of world around us, as. Axes of continuity: women gain more power in public. Dualist axis (cid:523)what(cid:495)s wrong with bodies? (cid:524) in western tradition, mind and soul. Control axis (why here and now?) body is how we exercise control, we are more valuable, mind/body as separate, mind is rational control our bodies bc we cannot control other parts of life since we rely on tech.