Anthropology 360 - Anthropology of the Body

Institution:

Bard College

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GSS, Human Rights Anthropology has long been concerned with bodies, both as sources of symbolic representations of the social world and as vehicles for expressions of individual and collective identities. Recent interest has centered on the individual body as a locus of situated knowledge: it has become a target for the production of consumer desires and a site of commodification and political control. This course explores a range of different issues raised by these perspectives through readings that theorize the body, supplemented by comparative ethnographic studies of bodily knowledge and practice. It considers the gendering of bodies and other culturally constructed markings of age, social class, and race; mind-body relations; and the manipulation of bodily surface and form to establish boundaries and identities through techniques such as tattooing, piercing, dieting, sculpting, and cosmetic surgery; among other topics.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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