... presents them to society (Mansfield, Lecture 12, Week 8, 11/05/00). I will now present my discussion in terms of the body, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Moreover, in doing this I will highlight some of the problems of "identity politics" in accounting for certain phenomena. Identity is connected with representation (Mansfield, Lecture 10, Week 7, 04/05/00), and the body is certainly a part of the representation which is also a signifier that allows individuals to be classified into different cultural groups. Recognition of identity could Student no: 30646723 Class: Thursday 6-7pm W5C309 be viewed through one's body representation. Marcel Mauss's "Techniques of the Body" is concerned with the conception of class as an embodied practice. All individual choices that are shown through body representations, which including the particular style individual adopted in walking, dressing and talking, are embodied class and acculturated perception. These personal choices are also know as "silent markers" which construct ...

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