ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biological Determinism, Apple Pie, Acculturation
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We are part of a multicultural world. National culture is shared experiences/beliefs/customs of people growing up in the same nation. Individual agency: people have willpower over how they think and behave. Structuralism: structures beyond the individual (like culture) control how people think and behave. Both agency and structure is present in our everyday life. Biological determinism (in our nature): search for genes/hormones determining homicide/alcoholism. Have to look at things as universal. Cultural constructionism (learned from nurture): world is entirely created by culture. Monogamy: both partners have one spouse, most common in terms of population. Polygamy: one individual has multiple spouses, most common in terms of groups. Polygyny - marriage of one man to multiple women. Polyandry - marriage of one woman to multiple men. Variation involves differences of parts of culture and how they interact. Simple (fewer people, fewer parts) vs complex (more people, more.
