ANTH 2001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
28 Sep 2017
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Anthropology: the study of human societies and cultures and their development. 4 main approaches of western anthropology: biological anthropology: the study of evolution, function and health of the human body. Studies both the structure or contemporary societies and the origins of cultural meanings: society: a social group a group of people within a social group/setting, eg. Family relations, economic, political, religious, etc: people in these groups follow rules and regulations, culture: a system of meanings about the nature of experience . Deep culture: tacit culture: subconscious way your culture shapes who you are. Canadian sociocultural anthropology is influenced by british cultural anthropology and. Enculturation: the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture/group by a person, another culture, etc. Aka the learning, or taking in of a culture. Humans have to learn almost all aspects of life/survival: they are born with very limited skills needed to survive and rely entirely on their caregiver.
