An effort to define the concept of bodywork

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This study aims to discuss, in terms of body techniques, the relationship between culture and body that influences how people live. It also explores the development of the concept “bodywork” beyond the mere framework of a culturally determined body. In other words, it is an attempt to define the concept of “bodywork.” Sociologist Marcel Mauss considered bodily techniques to be uses of the body accumulating within a given culture and traditional means of using the human body in different societies. Specifically, bodily techniques are performed by an individual and a culturally informed role beyond a mere bodily state. Bodily techniques consist of two elements, “habitual physical activities” and “physical movements.” The former are daily actions that create a culturally determined body, and the latter are systemized techniques for eliciting body awareness. Physical movement is learned and refined through the spontaneous repetition of physical activities such as exercise or training. Physical movement through such experiences powerfully appeals to the perceptions of people. Thus, physical movement allows people to learn body techniques. This “bodywork” can act on the ways in which humans live. There is a hidden aspect of bodywork that influences how an individual’s lives and mere physical activities. Moreover, bodywork may be a process of cultural inheritance infused with body communication.

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