ANTH 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: San People, Genital Modification And Mutilation, Cultural Ecology
26 Oct 2018
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Ethnocentrism: belief and feelings that one"s own culture is best, reflects our tendency to judge other people"s beliefs and behavior using values of our own native culture. Na ve realism: unconscious belief that reality is the same for everybody regardless of their culture, example: beauty is the same for everyone. Cultural evolution: culture change over time, populations evolve when individual organisms within the population are born with certain genetic mutations that are better adapted to their environment, and which enable them to thrive and reproduce. Cultures evolve when faced with environmental or other stressors: san bushmen culture must adapt to a changing world. Modes of subsistence: food foraging societies, hunting, fishing, gathering of wild plant foods, food producing societies, domestication of plants (cultivation) and animals (raising) Industrial societies: machines and tools instead of human labor, using steam, water, air oil, electricity and nuclear energy.
