Blog 7 :)

This article by Kaprow reminded me of an article I have had to read multiple times in every sociology and anthropology class.  I can’t remember the author or the name of the article, but it was written in the 1950’s and it goes on to explain a culture in the way an anthropologist observes a new culture.  At one point it states that these people put a stick in their mouth, wash it vigorously then spit into a porcelain bowl everyday.  It isn’t revealed until the end of the article that he’s talking about Americans and that this is simply us brushing our teeth.  Obviously we have routinized brushing our teeth because we do it every day and it becomes normal, but seen through an anthropological perspective it sounds weird.  Kaprow’s perspective of brushing our teeth is that because it’s present, of the moment and not an object that it art.