Right where our body ends - anthropology of edges

The bias of head over heels ,,follows a long-standing tendency, in western thought and science, to elevate the plane of social and cultural life over the ground of nature" (Ingold. Tim, 2004) . My talk invites us to look at both the head and the heel, right where the body ends. To wonder why we give special attention to the organs that mark our elevation. The feet we stand on, the head we raise up. Anthropology taught us that both culture and nature are socially constructed, Material anthropology might teach us how we do that and why. This is a case study based on ethnographic work among Jewish Veiled women and a multisighted research on Sandals and formation of local style in Israel.


Spotkanie odbyło 9.12.2015 się w ramach projektu „Antropologia dziś - otwarte seminaria naukowe” finansowanego ze środków Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego. Projekt jest realizowany przez Stowarzyszenie „Pracownia Etnograficzna” im. Witolda Dynowskiego we współpracy z Instytutem Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UW.