bodily hexis (n.) is a pattern both individual and systematic, charged with a host of social meanings and values.

Pierre Bourdieu on Bodily Hexis

bodily hexis

is habit settled into the bones until it looks like nature.

is the integration of body space with cosmic space.

The concessions of politeness always contain political concessions (Outline 95).lclassification schemes are embodied in the world of objects 'movements integrate body space with cosmic space (Outline 91).

is a pattern both individual and systematic, charged with a host of social meanings and values.

a pattern of postures that is both individual and systematic. . . and is charged with a host of social meanings and values' (87 OTP)

is sub-discursive education. It is the embodying of the structures of the world.

sub-discursive education (e.g. gestures, postures) the 'embodying of the structures of the world' (Outline to a Theory of Practice 89)

is political mythology embodied, rendered into a permanent disposition of standing, speaking, feeling, and thinking.

Much teaching is done implicitly through games and rituals and play (Outline87-95)'bodily hexis is political mythology realised, em-bodied, turned into a permanent disposition, a durable manner of standing, speaking, and thereby of feeling and thinking (Outline 94).

is the physical space one claims with one's body through a bearing and gestures (which can be self-assured or reserved, expansive or constricted, aggressive, careless, or unconscious).

Bodily hexis, a basic dimension of the sense of social orientation, is a practical way of experiencing and expressing one's own sense of social value. One's relationship to the social world and to one's proper place in it is never more clearly expressed than in the space and time one feels entitled to take from others... more precisely, in the space one claims with one's body in physical space, through a bearing and gestures that are self-assured or reserved, expansive or constricted ('presence' or 'insignificance') and with one's speech in time, through the interaction time one appropriates and the self-assured or aggressive, careless or unconscious way one appropriates it. . . . There is no better image of the logic of socialization, which treats the body as a 'memory-jogger', than those complexes of gestures, postures and words simple interjections or favourite cliches which only have to be slipped into, like a theatrical costume, to awaken, by the evocative power of bodily mimesis, a universe of ready-made feelings and experiences. The elementary actions of bodily gymnastics, especially the specifically sexual, biologically pre-constructed aspect of it, charged with social meanings and values, function as the most basic of metaphors, capable of evoking a whole relationship to the world, 'lofty' or 'submissive', 'expansive' or 'narrow', and through it a whole world. (from distinctions)

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African retention

Africanism

alliance theory

anthropological reflexivity

anthropological universalism

anthropologie partagee

anthropology at a distance

anti-anti-relativist

atom of kinship

audit cultures

balanced reciprocity

bazaar economy

big man

biocommunicability

biolegitimacy

biological citizenship

body ecologic

bovine idiom

canonic formula of myth

cattle clock

cattle complex

cinetrance possession

circle of culture

coefficient of weirdness

coercive harmony

cognized and operational environments

communitas

contagious magic

contagiousness of the sacred

cultural capital

cultural citizenship

cultural contact

cultural evolution

cultural fundamentalism

cultural hegemony

cultural intimacy

cultural model

cultural particularism

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cultural poesis

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cultural relativity

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cultural trauma

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culture and personality

culture area

culture as text

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