ANTH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Culture Change, Enculturation, Edward Burnett Tylor

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Elle Shoreman-Ouimet

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Judgment free zone that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. -e. b. Tylor, 1871 culture is a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people. The inclusion of artifacts, i. e. material constructs that can be considered typical of a culture. Emphasis on culture as learned and created . Let"s break down the culture concept and look at individual pieces: 1. culture( ) - a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared, and contested by a group of people. Enculturation: the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture. No one is born into a culture: teachers: teach, practice, correction.