AN202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnology, Fist Bump, Coevolution
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5: interacting with the world physically and symbolically. Transmission (ex. children learning by watching adults, waving) Memory remembering the behaviours that we"ve learned. Reiteration replicating behaviours that we have learned. Innovation modify/ invent new behaviours (ex. fist bump instead of wave) Selection deciding on which innovation we want to keep (ex. fist bump in, while waving out) lomoar cpsd| 5490467. Gain insight by: participating with informants* in social activities, observing activities as outsiders. Participant not considered as a subject (informants: people who work with anthropologists to provide them with insight about their culture. ) Whole is the sum of its parts: parts and whole mutually determine each other and co-evolve objects and environments interpenetrate and define each other. Consider the similarities and differences in a wide range of human societies before generalizing human nature, society or history. Wide range of beliefs and how they work individually.
