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Deep-Seated Culture: Understanding Sitting, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd
Deep-Seated Culture: Understanding Sitting, Karen T. Keifer-Boyd
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Similar to the way that our culture influences how we interpret the world, the way that we sit in a chair and the type of chair that we are in positions what we see and how we are seen. Environmental cues communicate information through which we establish context and define a situation (Rapoport, 1982, p. 56). In this paper I examined the ways in which chairs (defined as that which is underneath us when "sitting") and sitting (defined as the infinite ways that we sustain our bodies in a bent position ranging from squatting, kneeling, reclining, or the lotus position) …