ANTHRO 135B- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
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How children seek and discover the local cultural implementations of four universal forms of social relations, and how ppl evoke each other"s relational motives and moral sentiments. Memory: lots of forms that can"t be articulated, can"t reflect on them very clearly. Procedural stuff is what you learn by observation and imitation from explanation and teaching (although a small part of culture transmission) for the conceptual things learning how to read and write teaching becomes important in culture. No one can learn anything without knowing anything. need a structure for learning. What do you already need to know to learn something you need to learn/ Language --> communication can pick up language without any tutoring, teaching inevitable innate learning mechanism, with some motivation how to function socially. The omni-potent infant and the specific culturally committed adult. How do children become able and motivated to particpate in culture.
