ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Feral Child, Ethnic Group, Enculturation
19 Oct 2017
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Lecture 2 - identities: constructing us" and them". Enculturation: process through which individuals learn an identity. It can include parental socialization, peer in uence, media, government, school and other forces: sociocultural forces and institutions teach us, consciously or unconsciously, about what it means to be - e. g. girl & boy, black, white, etc Identity is relational: we become someone in relation to others, through our interactions, interactions shaped by their perceptions of us, go man. We use our bodies in unconscious and conscious ways to communicate information about ourselves to others. Through speech, clothing, gestures, postures, people make assumptions and judgements about us. Upon interaction we seek information about a person or draw on information we already have. We group people together to understand them and how to interact with them. Feral children example: feral child: a human child who has lived isolated from human contact.
