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agency The capacity for human beings to make choices, create their own world, have their own ideas, etc.

body-branding Branding involves burning the skin with hot or cold instruments to produce a permanent design. It is often used to express ownership of other humans

body modification The deliberate altering of the human anatomy

colourism Prejudice involving the preferential treatment of people with light skin within and between ethnic groups

embodiment A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality or feeling

habitus The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life

handedness A preference for using one hand as opposed to the other

Social construction The view that the phenomena of the social and cultural world and their meanings are created in human social interaction

taboo A custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place or thing

tattoo A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars