ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Applied Anthropology, Linkedin, Netflix
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Question 1. 1: why do human beings differ in their beliefs and behaviours. Culture the system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another. Incl. the meanings that people give to things, events, activities and people: people differ in how they view the world because of their culture. Members of all human societies experience specific life events such as birth, death and the quest for food, water and shelter. Culture is about meaning; cultural meanings must be learned; once learned, meanings are shared by members of particular culture. Culture enables human beings to make sense of their life experiences and to understand those experiences as meaningful in particular ways. Human beings are cultural animals; they ascribe meanings of their own creation to objects, persons, behaviours, emotions and events and then proceed to act as if those meanings are real.