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Consider the Forms of Body Decoration and Adornment Common to Your

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Consider the forms of body decoration and adornment common to your own culture. What purposes might an anthropologist say that this body art fulfills?


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Intimacy

A close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.

Status

The relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.

Ethnocentrism

The tendency to consider one’s culture superior to others.

Cultures

The shared values, traditions, norms, customs, arts, history, folklore, and institutions of a group of people.

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