Suggested Reading: pick selected pgs/ whole paper to be able to answer guiding questions
•Csordas, T. (1990) Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology. Ethos, 18 (1), pp. 5, 7-12/ 5-47. (whichever variant to be able to answer guiding questions.)
Guiding questions
•What is embodiment?
•What is the relationship between the body and culture?
•How embodiment works in terms of perception?
•How embodiment works it terms of practice?
•What are the methodological implication of embodiment paradigm?
Discussion questions
•How is Csordas‘ s approach different from the approach of Douglas and Mauss, Goffman, Bourdieu or Foucault?
•Symbolic body/social body; body techniques; normative of social situation; habitus-field; docile bodies…
• Can you think about more examples of this theory application?
•In relation to gender, beauty, illness, eating, health, sexual behaviour, death