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Ezatollahi T. Bodily Heritage: From Body Anthropology to Self-Decoration. Anthropol Stud 2026; 3 (1)
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The body has been studied in studies with different approaches, from theology to culture. This evolution shows that before the twentieth century, the body was the exclusive domain of theology, philosophy, and social history, while one of the most important branches of anthropology is the anthropology of the body. In this article, what evolutions the anthropology of the body has undergone from self-decoration to self-decoration. This research uses an analytical-descriptive method and analyzes data collected through library resources and documents. The findings show that studies of the body gradually shifted from being exclusively theological, philosophical, and social history to the cultural body in the early twentieth century. In this century, many attempts were made to classify and compare the body in relation to social and political consequences. However, the twentieth century was dominated by research on meaning and symbol. And studies of self-decoration emerged and flourished in the 1970s, and most studies of the 20th century considered the body as a platform for cultural symbols in social structure through ritual and self-decoration. In fact, the anthropology of the body proposed two theoretical approaches: "symbol" and "agency." In the last few decades, the body has been considered as a socio-cultural and historical phenomenon, and its representative or symbolic nature and conduit of social meaning have been taken into account. The second and most prominent role of the body is as an active participant or agent in the social world, acting as a mediator of communication with the world.
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Intangible culture
Received: 2026/02/13 | Accepted: 2026/06/7 | Published: 2026/07/13
Received: 2026/02/13 | Accepted: 2026/06/7 | Published: 2026/07/13
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