Yes, the body's largest holes--mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, vagina, meatus--are
hierarchized as entry and exit points for the body.
Our case study shows this with regard to an important feature that a theory may have, namely its unified,
hierarchized nature.
He considers racism as a precise doctrine that can be summed up in four points (Levi-Strauss, 1988: 208): firstly, a correlation between genetic heritage and intellectual skills and moral attitudes is constructed; secondly, it is claimed that this heritage, on which these skills and attitudes are dependent, is common to all members of certain groups of people; thirdly, these groups, referred to as "races", may be
hierarchized according to the "quality of their genetic heritage"; fourthly, these differences entitle the so-called "superior races" to dominate, exploit, and even annihilate the other races.
(6) Notions of clean and unclean in terms of soap-using cultures vis-a-vis others emerged, premised on
hierarchized class and cultural barriers leading to class control (cleansing the great unwashed: labourer, miner versus the white collar) and the imperial civilizing mission (washing and clothing the savage: clean colonizer versus unclean colony).
Turning to the archival records documenting the negotiations leading up to the program, and the eventual withdrawal of the Eastern European broadcasters, we draw attention to how the temporal structures and
hierarchized geographies that Parks underlines in her study of Our World came into being, emphasizing the ways in which they were highly contested by Eastern European participants throughout the production process and even after the broadcast.
In this context, bodies have a symbolic value, representing a password for women's full acceptance and social insertion in a society stratified by classes and
hierarchized by gender, where thinness has been considered a prerequisite for this to happen.
In Foucault's example of the prison, exhaustive use was enforced through
hierarchized surveillance that created a system of supervision where individuals regulated themselves.
It is of utmost importance for the group to be
hierarchized according to a project management schema.
This underlying narrative motif is perfectly revealed in the film's Chinese title Ren gui qing [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] literally "human, ghosts, feelings." While the juxtaposition of human and ghosts suggests an equilibrium between the two domains in Qiu Yun's performance and allegorizes a
hierarchized gender dynamic, her emotions and desires are ultimately what enables her to bridge these two separate and potentially antithetical worlds.
The NHPs lived in highly
hierarchized social groups of 3 to 8 individuals, exclusively indoor in big pens of concrete and metal in one air-conditioned barrier unit.
Chief among these dramatic tropes is the dynamic of soul and body, which was not only gendered (men were aligned with the rational, divine soul; women with the capricious, earthly body) but also
hierarchized, in that the soul was placed above and thus governed the body in all things.
