Culture and embodiment. (Answer in 150 words)

- Culture and embodiment. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Embodiment holds that culture is not only shared ideas held in the mind but dispositions, sensations and skills inscribed in the body, making the body the ground of culture rather than merely its object.

Body
1. The claim against culture as belief: Marcel Mauss's "techniques of the body" (1934) showed walking, swimming and squatting to be culturally trained; Thomas Csordas made embodiment a methodological starting point that dissolves the mind-body dualism inherited from Descartes.
2. The organising concepts: Bourdieu's habitus, durable dispositions laid down by practice and expressed as bodily hexis; Merleau-Ponty's lived, pre-objective body; Foucault's disciplined body; and apprenticeship and sensory learning as transmission without instruction.
3. What it explains: the knowledge informants cannot state — caste pollution felt as visceral disgust, Scheper-Hughes's nervios in north-east Brazil, gendered comportment, possession and pain idioms, and why bodily habit outlives professed belief.

Conclusion
Embodiment reaches the unspoken half of culture. Its risk, critics note, is dwelling on sensation without carrying the analysis back to social structure.