Sweaty motions
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT In Mozambique, class and gender have long produced sweating bodies entangled in hierarchies of care and labor. Today, the growing popularity of fitness is complicating the cultural politics of bodily substances, especially sweat. Challenging ideals of feminine propriety, new ways of sweating are fostering health‐conscious subjectivities and encouraging alternative ways of becoming and relating. As a bodily “thing,” sweat sits somewhat uncomfortably within posthumanist and neomaterialist efforts at decentering the human. But our understanding of matter's potentiality can be refined by an ethnography that apprehends sweat as a material‐semiotic thing, one that operates simultaneously as matter and as an index of transformation. [anthropology of sweat,fitness,workout ethic,bodily substances,materiality,semiotics,health‐conscious subjectivities,excretion,Mozambique]
Source: American Ethnologist
DOI: 10.1111/amet.13086
Author: JULIE SOLEIL ARCHAMBAULT
Institutions: Concordia University, Concordia University, Concordia University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W4283741280