Studied by 4 people
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zNLt0dg0XqrgB9NznFrJDXeCXzbU94j8uur__9Brwhg/edit
Body
Culturally significant ways that we use & percieve the body, how people percieve the world
How meanings & values (culture) are produced on, about, and how it affects the body, how the body is used as identification or as a subject of social control (or used against power)
Relationship between body & self (person)
Belonging
How society is organized: politically, economically, culturally
How individuals experience being in one or more social groups, overlap
Social dislocation, marginalization, and exclusion due to discrimination
Kinship as method of belonging
Use of belonging in different contexts (like expression of resistance)
habitus?
Production, exchange, and consumption
How societies form, interact with, and transform their social/cultural environment through the economy (production, distribution, and consumption of material and symbolic goods)
Role of work and labor in poverty, inequality, gender roles, migration
Consumption of materials as form of communication
Consumption as expression of power relations
habitus? (thanks bordieu)
Anthropologists related to production, exchange, and consumption
Bourdieu & Sahlins: not all people behave according to same principles of economic rationality, must study within sociocultural contexts
Malinowski & Boas: concept of exchange - reject evolutionist abstractions
Douglas and Isherwood & Sahlins: exchange of meanings through goods, communication through consumption
Miller: impact of consumer goods on cultural values
Bourdieu: concept of habitus, how consumption shows power dynamics
