ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Teenage Rebellion, Microsoft Powerpoint, Margaret Mead
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Culture is about what people think, society is about what people do. 1952, two anthropologist published a book including more than 300 defs of anthropology. A. r. radcliffe-brown, on social structure, 1952 (powerpoint slide) Culture is something we learned from the people around us. Culture is supposed to be shared, stable, contains a system of knowledge. Culture is based on symbolic system, which sometimes could be complex. Culture is set to be public, because meaning is public. We do certain things because we think in certain way. Culture is ction, is a abstraction from the world. General and singular as in human society, human society is oppose to animals. Help people organize themselves, how people actually organize social relations. Culture is what people think, society is what people do, how people organize ourselves, including political, religion Human as meaning makers, we organize ourselves. Isolated preemptive people are not main focus anymore.
