AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marshall Sahlins, Clifford Geertz, Franz Boas
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Problem 1: how can people begin to understand beliefs and behaviors that are different from their own. In the 19th century, differences" were seen in racial" terms (biology) As civilized (progressive) & primitive - anthropology was given the savage slot to study (colonized societies) Early 20th c: culture concept replaced race" as a way of understanding. Culture that is a marker of our humanness. Humans create and imitate (pass down) patterned and meaningful (symbolic) ideas and activities for survival in different environments. Take sports as an example hockey and cricket. Defined culture as culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Text defines culture as the system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meaning that people give to things, events, activities, and people.
