ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homo Sapiens, Potlatch, Ethnocentrism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Sandra Bamford

Document Summary

Prejudice: lecture themes culture and adaptations human universals and divisions prejudice: racism ethnocentrism anthropology and imperialism: history, readings. Popularly, but not in anthropology, a culture also refers to a group of people (rather than their ways of acting, living, and thikng)(slang: language. A distinctively human resource and central element of culture, used for: Structuring how we see each other racist, accent. The world words that cannot be translated. And ourselves still words adapting to the natural and social environment: recap: universals and divisions. But speci c languages and speci c cultures are human particulars universals (language, culture) are innate. Particulars (language, culture) are learned via society( largely through talk: language and culture allow us to adapt to new situation, adaptive value of social transmission. Social transmission much more exible than genetic transmission: Major changes can occur within a generation or two; Speci c languages and cultures develop to cope with speci c environmental and social contexts.