ANT-1415 Lecture 2: Anthro Chapter 2
16 Aug 2016
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Key terms: culture, enculturation, norms, values, symbol, mental maps of reality, unilineal cultural evolution, historical particularism, structural functionalism, interpretivist approach, thick description, power, strati cation, hegemony, agency, cosmopolitanism. What is culture: culture is our manual for understanding and interacting with other humans, culture: system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people. Culture is learned and taught: not genetic, we learn it. Wednesday, january 27, 2016: enculturation: process of learning culture, animals can learn social behavior, too. Culture is shared yet contested: no individual has his or her own culture, there"s a culture in a college classroom, contested, negotiating and changing. How has the culture concept developed in anthropology: edward burnett tylor (1832-1917) - primitive culture. Wednesday, january 27, 2016: leading early anthropologists - edward tylor and james frazer of england and.
