ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward Burnett Tylor, Culture Shock, Enculturation
29 Aug 2020
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The concept of culture the nature of culture. Culture as the water in our fishbowl. We are born into a context that we think of as natural. Because it is natural to us (2nd nature), we actually do not think of it objectively. (people don"t realize how cultural they are until they go to another culture) Tylor (1871) that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired (learned) by man as a member of society . Kuykendall (1981) the total way of life of a people . Stokes (1985) culture is the learned context, including perception, behavior, and values that organizes the cosmos for members of a society . Culture is a common experiential based of a group of people. It"s held in common but no one contains or comprehends all of it. The individual understanding of culture overlaps and differs from all other members of the culture.
