ANT-2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Enculturation
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Enculturation the process by which a person learns about culture. How to act in certain situations is dictated by culture. Culture is uniquely human (not exclusive to though) Only we have the ability to learn and elaborate on culture. Signs that have no necessary or natural connection to the things they stand for or signify. (culture is) a set of control mechanisms for governing behavior. These rules and symbols are absorbed over a lifetime. Transmission of culture: directly, indirectly, unconscious. Many have a common experience with culture. Learn individually but (basically) learn the same thing. Minor differences but message remains the same. Don"t put your fingers in electric sockets. Passed onto you and you onto your children. Symbol is something (non)verbal, within a particular culture that comes to stand for something else. Every culture has a specific sound to represent something: doesn"t necessarily hold meaning to anyone else.
