ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Mesoamerica, Sociolinguistics, People And Things
14 Mar 2014
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Anthropology 101, lecture notes, october 29 norms, values, Classifications of reality are shared ideas about what kinds of things and people exist. *in our culture, horses and dogs are pets. Some cultures believe in ghosts and spirits, good luck / bad luck etc. Worldviews are a people"s way of interpreting the universe and how they themsevles fit into it. * ie. religious beliefs, the role humans play in nature (we tend to believe we are the keepers of the earth, other people"s see humans as any other animal). Culture change culture is always changing. (we often only think of industrial societies as not changing but that isn"t true) The prime mover of culture change is task. Specialization. since task specialization, the pace of change has increased. Internal mechanisms of change (these are universal: innovation. Fire, stone tools, the wheel, etc: secondary innovation aka invention aka discovery.
