important key terms Flashcards
1
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embodiment
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how individuals experience and express culture and identity through the body.
2
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the lived body
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refers to how we experience our bodies from the inside. one’s physical presence affects interactions with the world.
3
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commodification
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the process of turning non-market items into products for exchange. e.g. selling organs or sex work etc.
4
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the self
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a socially constructed understanding of individual cultural identity that distinguishes them from ‘the other’.
5
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personhood
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a culturally constructed concept of the individual human being, the ‘self’.
