ANTH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Burnett Tylor, Yir-Yoront Language
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Tylor"s deiniion of culture (150-ish years old: the culture concepion in the 20th century, how culture links the fields of anthropology. Culture [or civilizaion], taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabiliies and habits acquired by man as a member of society. (e. b. Elements of culture interrelate (changes in one aspect of culture will to lead to changes in other aspects of culture) Anthropology is the study of an animal that requires culture for survival. Relaively new discipline ( arrived in the late 19th century) Slow geing recognized in university and other insituions (used to be linked to sociology) 100-150 years ago all anthropologists were amateurs, training did not exist. Stone age culture (they also used bones, shells and wood for tool making) *we will go into hunter-gatherer acions of humans in a later lecture*
