Réconciliation externe

« Mary Douglas's work, as well as feminist deconstructions of the meanings contained in representations of the female body, inspired a generation of anthropologists and cultural theorists to explore the human body as a text that can be read to reveal a great deal of cultural information. This symbolic function of the body applies not only to the taboos and rituals described by Douglas, but to parts of the body, to representations of the human body—in artworks, medical texts, racial ideology, and advertisements—and to decorations and modifications of the flesh, from ornaments, hair fashion, cosmetics, masking, costuming, tattooing, piercing, and scarification, to body fattening or thinning, muscular development, and cosmetic surgery. However extreme or seemingly whimsical the practice, it always has meaning, always is shaped by the sociocultural context in and through which people act. Anthropologist Terence Turner called this dimension of the body the "social skin" a concept that applies just as aptly to the nineteenth-century corset and twentieth-century implants as to the traditional neck rings of the Karen peoples of Burma or lip plugs of the Amazonian Kayapo. » Read more: The Body - The Social Skin - Traditional, Modifications, Cultural, Racial, Example, and Meanings
« Finding ways to express yourself in a socially acceptable way may be hard when you're filled with emotions. Social Skin is series of moving accessories that help to improve the communication between people by expressing these emotions. The project resulted in three prototypes, out of which two are conceptual prototypes and the third, a necklace, is fully functional. » Social Skin Emotional Accessories
« L’analyse culturelle ne considère pas la culture comme un système figé qui gouverne les actions des individus en modelant leur personnalité, mais comme un cadre de référence, certes donné, mais que les individus façonnent et transforment au cours de leurs interactions. Elle part des individus qui construisent le sens de leurs actions selon les exigences du contexte social dans lequel ils se trouvent. Dans leurs transactions, ils mobilisent des valeurs et des principes qui leur permettent d’agir avec les autres et de justifier leurs actions selon des modalités qui puissent être comprises et acceptées par les autres. Ces unités de culture sont une composante active dans les négociations entre les individus lorsqu’ils cherchent à produire un sens partagé. Elles présentent une certaine plasticité dont l’analyse culturelle cherche à rendre compte en faisant appel aux orientations et aux contraintes que présente le contexte social. » L’analyse culturelle de Mary Douglas : une contribution à la sociologie des institutions
« Social Skin is a project by Seçil Ugur and Laura Duncker, made at the Wearable Senses research theme at the Industrial Design department at the Technical University of Eindhoven, in collaboration with Florian Neveu (technology) and supervised by Stephan Wensveen. They are the first prototypes in Seçil's continuing research for her PhD in Design at the Politecnico di Milano, supervised by Raffaella Mangiarotti (Design Faculty), Monica Bordegoni, Umberto Cugini and Marina Carulli (Mechanical Engineering Department). » Social Skin Emotional Accessories