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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)

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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?

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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)

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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

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