To investigate dominant social practices, hidden in plain sight, that infuse/inflect/define our lives - especially those around food, illness & dying, birth, the care of the dead, and prom - so that we can live more wisely.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

HW 18 - Health & Illness & Feasting

Please write a 3-5 paragraph analysis of physicality over the break.

If you're involved in family feasting please make that your focus for most of the analysis.

How did your experience of this holiday fit into the "anti-body" vs "body-centered" practices of our culture? How did food-pleasure supplement, dominate, or focus the event? Were other pleasures also practiced (watching football afterwards?)? What "background" elements related to illness & dying (empty chairs, sick family members, the nutritiousness of the food, lack of movement, etc)?

Due Monday, Nov. 29 at 8:30am.






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