ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Culture Shock, Edward Burnett Tylor, Shared Experience
5 Apr 2018
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These are the three main questions you should be able to respond to by the end of this. Chapter preview: what is culture, why do cultures exist, how are cultures evaluated? chapter. Culture and its existence are a large part of the work carried out by sociocultural anthropologists. It is important to consider culture from the anthropological perspective to properly appreciate, understand, and celebrate this beautiful and creative element in humanity. While variable, all cultures have a common thread in that they represent the collective behaviour of people as they cooperate to ensure their collective survival and well-being. Culture sets the limits of behaviour and guides people along predicable paths. That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society: haviland (1999) Here are two de nitions of culture, set more than 100 years apart.
