ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heredity, Enculturation
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Culture is an environmental force that affects our development, guides our emotional and cognitive growth and helps determine the kinds of personalities we have as adults. Discipline is based upon a cross-cultural perspective; often culture is. Invisible or assumed normal until it is compared against another. Explores human diversity across time and space, seeking to understand as much as possible about the human condition. Humans are among the most adaptable animals. Creativity, flexibility, and adaptability are basic human attributes, and human diversity is the subject matter of anthropology. Breadth of anthropology, study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. Holism refers to the study of the whole human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture comparative field that examines all societies, ancient and modern, simple and complex, local and global. Cultures - traditions and customs, transmitted thought learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them.
