ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marvin Harris, Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Anthropology

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 202
• Professor: Christine Jourdan

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Anth 202 lesson 3: culture, cultural change & globalization. Cultural formations do not remain static they are transformed throughout the history of people. The history of cultural groups is also the history of social change by inner cultural dynamics or through contacts with other groups: except extremely isolated groups. Human groups do not live in isolation from on another. Globalization is now the new buzz word to refer to rapid social change all over the world. Interpretive anthropologists: culture includes symbols, motivations, moods, and thoughts fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) people"s pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s, thoughts, a(cid:374)d ideas: does(cid:374)"t fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) (cid:271)ut seeks to explain it. Interpretive anthropologists: culture is contested and negotiated, and not always shared or imposed: cultu(cid:396)al (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ialist ma(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:374) ha(cid:396)(cid:396)is states that (cid:862)a (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e is the total so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) a(cid:272)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)ed life- way or lifestyle of a group of people. Characteristics of culture: culture is not the same as nature (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374) aspe(cid:272)ts of (cid:271)iolog(cid:455) affe(cid:272)t people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) a(cid:374)d lifest(cid:455)le, su(cid:272)h as (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g.