Mauss – Techniques of the body: The culturally specific ways in which people came to be aware of and use their bodies. Habitus: acquired embodied ability or facility instilled through processes of education and imitation.
Habitus- Practical knowledge: Developed through the process of socialisation during childhood. Individuals are still free to follow their own strategies. The goals and values on which these strategies are based are determined by the habitus. The habitusis is continually being developed through experience.
Bodily Hexis: "Bodily hexis is political mythology realised, embodied and turned into a permenant disposition. A durable way of standing, speaking, walking and thereby feeling and thinking. The opposition between male and female is realised in posture, in the gestures and movements of the body, in the form and opposition between straight and bent, between firmness, uprightness and directness... and restraint, reserve and flexibility." (Logic of Practice p60-70)
Embodied Habitus: Acquired through an unconscious process of practical imitation, a practical reproduction. It isn't a knowledge which a person has but something that a person is. Since it's beyond the grasp of consciousness, it can't be deliberately reflected upon or deliberately manipulated.
Embodied knowledge: Initiation recreated the social order, people are informed and given to form a habitus. Values of scoiety are inscribed on the body and change it. Maturity is a matter of common sense which is formed and achieved when inner thoughts are consistent with spoken words and external actions- experiental truth rather than knowledge reflected upon.
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