Inquiry Specific concepts that relate to The Body

• Commodification: Turning the body into something of value
• Embodiment: Incorporating the social and material world into the body- a person knows, thinks and feels about the world through the body
• Habitus: Norms that guide how we behave, why we think/feel/behave in certain wats in particular social situations
• Personhood: A culturally constructed concept of how we see human beings
• Subjectivity: An anthropologists interpretation of events is guided by their own background and experience
• The body: Our physical body and how we see it, it's uses. value and limits; this differs across cultures
• The other: Other people who are not members of a particular social group
• The self: A socially constructed idea of how we see ourselves according to our cultural identity