ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnography, Arapesh Languages, Woman Chief
10 Dec 2013
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Identity, personality, & gender (last topic covered by exam #2) Enculturation begins with the development of self-awareness; happens in childhood (some argue even earlier in the womb) Self-awareness = the ability to identify oneself as an individual, to reflect on oneself, and to evaluate oneself. Personality = the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves; it is a product of enculturation as experienced by individuals with their own distinct experiences and genetic makeup. Dependence training = childrearing practices that foster compliance in the performance of assigned tasks and dependence on the domestic group, rather than reliance on oneself. Independence training = childrearing practices that foster independence, self-reliance, and personal achievement. Anthropologists try to strike a balance between recognizing unique individuals and cultural tendencies . Modal personality = those character traits that occur with the highest frequency in a social group and are therefore the most representative of the culture.
