Anthropology 2263A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intelligence Quotient, Cholera, Training Bra
23 Apr 2016
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Traditional fiji - eat lots and be chubby iz very noice. High eat-26 scores and self induced vomiting to lose weight following novel prolonged tv exposure. Association of western imagery with glamour and status. Want to be like western models aka skinny. Little knowledge that tv images are contrived and edited. Lock and scheper hughes - the mindful body. Representational use of the body as a symbol about nature, society, and culture! The body politic - the regulation, surveillance, and control of bodies. Disciplines individual body and regulates the social body. Descartes - cogito, ergo sum - i think, therefore i am. Leads to treating af ictions as either organic or psychological in origin. Leads to the medicalization, often the misidentication, between the individual and social bodies. Scienti c specialized knowledge prevents us from seeing the world as a whole. This perception, of the mind/body dichotomy, is a product of the enlightenment, not a universal conception.
