ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Acculturation, Kinship, Enculturation
23 Feb 2017
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Culture & language: unique to humans: brains are hard-wired for learning culture, culture gave humans an evolutionary advantage ( i. e. tools, re, new subsistence patterns, occupation of new environments ) Function of culture: culture is an adaptation, psychological needs, social needs, biological needs. Bodily adornment: to communicate ethnic identity or af liation with a particular culture group, or . Murdock"s cultural universals: athletics, bodily adornment, calendar, cleanliness, cooking, courtship, cosmology, ethics, family relations, games, joking/humor, gift giving. Culture is shared (within cultures: history, books, media, sporting events, education systems/informal education systems. Culture is shared (across cultures: culture diffusion: borrowing of culture traits across geographical areas. Symbol - something verbal or non-verbal that stands for something abstract. Culture is contested: agency refers to the ability of individuals or groups to mobilize change in broader cultural systems. Three components of culture: material objects, ideas, values, attitudes, behavioral patterns. I am obnoxious, bratty, bitchy, funny, short, really bored .
