ANTH260 Week 7 Bodies and Embodiment The Social Flesh Interaction between subjectivity embodiment intimacy social institutions and social interconnection Our bodies affect our experiences in the world The body stands as a social signifier of success Bio Necropolitics Biopolitics Phenomenology Necropolitics A constitutive form of power that takes as its object human life Body is form of power utilized to be made to do certain things Biopolitical worth how much your body is worth Work selling labor The carnal the emotional the cognitive and the cultural are indistinguishable How we experience the world Actual physical body The condition for the acceptability of putting to death When is it okay for bodies to die When is it socially acceptable for people to die War expect that death is a part of war its okay to die Detachability Fat What is it Success Energy store in your body Would you rather be fat than thin Obesity socio economic status contributes Metabolic rate Healthiness Used to be a sign of wealth Now the opposite Assume that people with different body types are different US obsessed with body types and youth Functionality Beauty US obessesed with youth Over Indulgence Thinner greater sense of control Pishtaco Andean legend Evil white stranger the pishtaco violently extracts body fat from natives to sell Layers Most likely one of colonial explorers White outsider coming in and taking something from a body for profit Source of wealth vitality Fattening Rooms of Calabar People will think I am not rich if a woman is a not fat and has not gone through that process she does not qualify for marriage What does this mean Name of person being fattened is Happiness Made to be a more proper and valuable life Doubling weight in 6 months makes you a more viable wife Fat wealth healthy US Some pre brides LOSE weight fad diets plastic surgery tanning exercise feeding tubes Status symbol time to go to gym and pay for membership and healthier food to have perfect body Body Modification What is body modification The semi permanent deliberate alteration of the human body and embraces procedures such as tattooing and body piercing Dates back to early human history Globally practices Piercings Initiation rites social status o Pain is apart of it Beauty and art Exploring physical limits of pain o Suspension US intense meditation exploring limits of physical pain Tattooing Signal religious affiliations strength or social status US sailors then punk affiliation Now mainstream Identity and expression Motivational categories Beauty art and fashion Individuality Personal narrative Physical endurance Group affiliations and commitment Resistance Addiction Spirituality and cultural tradition Sexual motivation