ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, Cultural Ecology
19 Apr 2017
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The often taken-for-granted ways of acting that are acquired through both individual and social experience. Learned behaviors and symbols that allow people to live in. Primary means by which humans adapt to their environment. Way of life characteristic of a particular human society. Study of human adaptation to physical and social environment. Prioritizes material behavior in order to study socio-cultural systems. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group. An anthropological perspective that focuses on culture as the principal force in shaping the typical personality of a society as well as on the role of personality in the maintenance of cultural institutions. A theoretical approach that focuses on the ways in which members of a culture classify their world, and holds that anthropology should be the study of cultural systems of classification. Focuses on the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures. Focuses on how different cultures perceive health and sickness.
