ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Blacking
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In a perfect scenario humans can live into their 90s. Degeneration and death are the logical consequences of life. The environmental, social, political hazards overshadow these natural biological processes (homelessness, accidents etc. ) While we all age as humans, it is a social process as well as a biological one. These categories don"t follow physiologically (some cultures differ their definition of an adolescent etc. ) Aging is a continuous process (keep aging until you die) society makes it discontinuous. Society and culture demarcate different ages or periods in the life course in a particular individual. Society and culture decide different boundaries for ages. They decide how one moves between these age boundaries. Culture and society make aging a discontinuous process (difference between 17 and 18) In the west there is a difference between a minor and an adult even though there is not a difference between when you were 17 and turned 18 on your birthday.
