ANTH 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Relativism, Enculturation
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Questions: mcgee and warms chapter - e b tylor. As far as definitions goes it certainly covers a lot of ground. Additionally by stating that culture is something acquired by man as a member of society" tylor hints and not just culture, but also enculturation, and how culture is something which are implicitly and explicitly taught by living within it. Sees culture as represented materially which can be quantified and categorized, when he talks about culture he"s talking about culture of all people everywhere, with cultures" encompassed by culture" that all have various quantities of it within them. Concept of culture" vs. cultures" is something we don"t really use anymore, does have serious ethnocentric implications when you start quantifying by some arbitrary quantitative measurement. This definition of culture" became ours for culture" basically via the boasians and cultural relativism who started looking at cultures not culture.
