ANTHROPOLOGY - EXAM CONTENT by Julia Rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz Binding concepts, theory, and knowledge. en-us 2017-11-20 00:22:05 UTC 2026-03-17 04:52:09 UTC hello@padlet.com EXAM - MAIN IDEAS julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208550027
  • Postmodern world of consumption
  • Social and cultural consequences of colonialism
  • Ideology of beauty culture in relation to inequality
  • Identity in relation to sexuality
  • How media and communication have contributed to social change

    • ]]>     2017-11-20 00:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208550027     CONCEPTS julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208550566 Postmodernity: Social pattern of postindustrial societies (science is falsified, knowledge is subjective, social institutions fail). 

    Colonialism: Gaining political control over a nation, occupying it with settlers and exploiting the area economically (Collins, 2017)

    Identity: Individual's personal view of the self or the view of an individual in the eyes of a social group (IB, 2017) ]]>     2017-11-20 00:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208550566     Postmodern World of Consumption julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208552415 - Cultural debates are intensified
    - Postmodern definition of health
    - Modern? Concept is loaded throughout
    - Mental and biological health become as important as physical image (another type of health)
    - Theory of Materialism: mental aspects are a result of materialist interactions. 

    ]]>     2017-11-20 00:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208552415     Social and Cultural Consequences of Colonialism julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208553914 - Syncretism of race and beauty
    - Cross-cultural comparison to the US and Europe as a base for cultural "perfection" ---> leads to increase in class differences
    - Social stratification
    -  Structural violence: slavery. Beauty as a "right" established based on the lack of supplementary rights (health, housing, security). 
    - Pigmentocracy and "racial purity" as finish line for absolute beauty. Social hierarchy of those with a certain skin tone. 
    -Understatement of local Brazilian ethnicity. More importance to white, European ethnicity. --- "White women for marriage; mulatas for screwing, black women for work (Edmonds, 2010). 
    - Accomplishment of beauty as foreshadowing for future regarding marriage, opportunities, and money. Only applies for women.

    ]]>     2017-11-20 01:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208553914     How Media and Communication have Contributed to Social Change julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208554216 - TV Globo (impactful media)
    - Beauty talk among females influences interaction through communities with similar purposes
    - Globalization ---> Social change
    -Power of technology for social change (health, media, knowledge)
    - Theory of Diffusionism (globalization, Eurocentric perspective of beauty)]]>     2017-11-20 01:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208554216     Ideology of Beauty in Relation to Inequality julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208555946 - Social stratification and respective beauty concepts
    - Gender inequality referring to beauty and health (only women need to be beautiful)
    - Beauty is an asset. Western beauty is the only valid structure
    - Holistic perspective of beauty (race, body image, psychology)
    - Gender, race, and class inequality
    - Body as a cultural artifact. Denial of cultural AfroAmerican origins. 
    - Ideological dissatisfaction regarding Western beauty standards
    - Female body is objectified. ]]>     2017-11-20 01:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208555946     Identity in Relation to Sexuality julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208559596 - Sexuality is directly related to beauty. No physical beauty equals loss of sexuality.
    - Motherhood is seen as loss of sexuality (what women desire vs the consequences it will have in their physique)
    - Plastic surgery becomes a requirement for a socially acceptable identity
    - The body is exchanged as a commodity. 
    - Simultaneous loss of identity (beauty goes opposite to what the individual really is)
    -post-colonial projects of nation building and national identity
    - Constant doubt: who am I? Sexuality>beauty>identity
    - Loss of identity of sensuality and connection to the body.
    - Sensuality is decreased by surgery, and so are the senses of touch. ]]>     2017-11-20 01:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208559596     THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES julia_rabelo https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208630863 - Holistic perspective, diffusionism, structural violence, cultural relativism.]]> 2017-11-20 09:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_rabelo/1hvedr89rsgz/wish/208630863