ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enculturation, Biological Anthropology
11 Dec 2017
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From a social anthropological perspective, tough, culture is a product of society or social groups and networks. From physical anthropology, culture and society are adaptions to the challenges of the environment. Culture is a non genetic mode of transmission located in an on- going community. Involves sets of learned behaviours and ideas that humans acquire as members of society. Cultural explinations problematic, circular, no explanatory value o o o o o o o o o. Acquired and internalized by the individual = enculturation, aka socialization. Cultural acquisition, like all learning, is not a passive observation and imitation. An active process of guided reinvention of culture. We avoid eating creatures that we associate with, name, or see as having personalities. We are uncomfortable with cuts of meat that have clear analogies with our bodies value a t-bone more than a kidney. People have long tried to define what distinguishes them from animals.
