ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cultural Anthropology, Dowry, Anthropocene
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*linguistic/social and cultural anthropology: observation of people and cultures. *culture is one of the central tradition concepts in social/cultural anthropology. *friction between groups of people accompanied by prejudice. *culture, language, and adaptation: tool of human adaptation. Today"s class: human universals and differences, how real is race, how to talk about race, time permitting: anthropology and difference. Culture: what we learn from each other vs what was programmed by our genes, a description what is programmed into us biologically inheritance of the species that is universal to us vs what we learn from culture. Cultural universals and particulars: cultures are significantly different, but not infinitely different, human cultures have more in common than not. Language and languages: like cultures, languages have more in common than not, most characteristics are the same, differences are called surface structure, nouns and verbs, every language has nouns and verbs according to linguistics.
