Question: Why is the body an important object of anthropological study?
Answer: In order to try and understand a different culture I feel it is of paramount importance to first consider the smallest human unit of that culture. How people relate to that individual unit, facilitates understanding of collectives such as the family and the society itself. As Comaroff suggests, (1985:6-7), “the body mediates all action upon the world and simultaneously constitutes the self and the universe of social and natural relations of which it is a part. It is through this mediation that a body becomes a person.”...(short extract)
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- Subject: Anthropology
- Course: Anthropology
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 65%
- Words: 1987
- Date submitted: March 02, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 865
