¿Cómo se forma un cuerpo? Hacia una problematización sociocultural de la noción de cuerpo desde la tensión naturaleza-cultura
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2018-12
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Sobre Diversidad Cultural
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La intención de este trabajo es abrir una pregunta que, en general, tiende a mantenerse como un presupuesto de las investigaciones en antropología del cuerpo (y, más ampliamente, en los estudios sociales del cuerpo). Nos referimos a cómo éstas asumen que una serie de prácticas –tales como la danza, los deportes, etcétera– son propiamente corporales. En este sentido,se establece un lazo entre ellas y una noción de cuerpo que no quedaproblematizada, por el cual se da por sentado que estudiar a dichasprácticas es, ya de por sí, estudiar lo corporal. Tornar a ese vínculo en uninterrogante, indagando los presupuestos en los que se funda el estudio delo corporal, es entonces el objetivo central que aquí se persigue. En el desarrollo de la argumentación resulta clave interrogarnos acerca de si el cuerpo mismo es el producto de una cultura, una historia, una política particular, o bien sólo sus “usos” son así producidos, mientras el cuerpo se mantiene como una roca dura.
The intention of this work is to open up a question that, in general, tends to be maintained as a presupposition on anthropology of the body´s researchs (and, more broadly, in the social studies of the body). We refer to how that inquiries assume that a series of practices -such as dance, sports, etc.- are properly bodily. In this sense, a link is established between them and a notion of body that is hardly problematized, by which it is taken for granted that studying these practices is, in itself, studying the body. Turn that link into an open interrogation, researching the budgets on which the study of the corporal is grounded, is then the central objective pursued here. In the development of this argumentation, it is fundamental to ask ourselves whether the body itself is the product of a culture, a history, a policy in their particularity, or only its “uses” are thus produced, while the body remains as a tough core of nature at the heart of this type of anthropological approach.
The intention of this work is to open up a question that, in general, tends to be maintained as a presupposition on anthropology of the body´s researchs (and, more broadly, in the social studies of the body). We refer to how that inquiries assume that a series of practices -such as dance, sports, etc.- are properly bodily. In this sense, a link is established between them and a notion of body that is hardly problematized, by which it is taken for granted that studying these practices is, in itself, studying the body. Turn that link into an open interrogation, researching the budgets on which the study of the corporal is grounded, is then the central objective pursued here. In the development of this argumentation, it is fundamental to ask ourselves whether the body itself is the product of a culture, a history, a policy in their particularity, or only its “uses” are thus produced, while the body remains as a tough core of nature at the heart of this type of anthropological approach.
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Cuerpo, Naturaleza, Cultura, Política, Body, Nature, Culture