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Dress
– a wide array of other supplements ansd attachents to the body such as makeup,
piercings, masks, shoes, headdresses, wigs, hairplugs or applying heat, chemicals, light to
change color texture and odor…perfumes, deoderants, tanning, facial peels, straightening or
curling, tattoos, branding, cutting hair, shaving, removing a mole, lipo, nosejob…dress is
intentional, but in accidental circumstances…dress protects the body from the physical,
psychological, and social environments
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Culture
– a system that is learned and reflected in behavioral patterns characteristic of the
members of a society…”what people know, feel, think, make, and do”
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Menitfacts
– what people know and think are the menifacts of a culture which include ideas,
ideals, values, knowledge, and ways of knowing
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Stereotype –
a network of meanings assigned on the basis of appearance...appearance
stereotypes are mentifacts shared by members of a cultural group
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Hegemony
– a more powerful group that dominates
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