ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Samarai, Banana Leaf, Enemy Alien
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Sociocultural anthropology look beyond the world of everyday experiences to discover the patterns and meaning that lie behind that world. Foucault refers to the shaping of a human body as the political anatomy : people"s bodies are controlled by others to operate with the necessary speed and efficiency. Anthropologist might suggest that the chair is part of the political anatomy of educational settings part of the system of realizations that give meaning to the classroom. Forms the body into shape that forces it to attend to a teacher and not to others in the same room. The distribution of people in space, with each person in a particular spot in neat, ordered rows, serves to discipline people to pay attention to the classroom centre and not to others around them. Contrast the wide open space of kindergarten to the space of a second or third grade classroom, with its desks facing the centered desk of the teacher.
