ANTH100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Enculturation, Domestication, West Sumatra

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

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[x]discuss the basic characteristics and components of culture as understood by anthropologists. [x]discuss how anthropologists understand the sharing of culture. [x]discuss the components of nonmaterial culture studied by anthropologists. [x]describe how culture results in differences among people in various societies. [x]describe how culture leads to universal similarities among people in widely separated societies. [x]discuss the relationship between biology and culture, and how anthropologists regard the nature/nurture questions of humanity. [x]describe how anthropologists study enculturation and its relationship to personality formation. [x]discuss what cognitive anthropologists have learned about universals and human thought processes. [x]discuss what anthropologists have discovered about human emotions. [x]discuss the limitations of enculturation in studying human behaviour. Culture: that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. This suggests that culture includes fire tools.