ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Infant Mortality, Cultural Universal, Relativism

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Andrea Muehlebach

Document Summary

Happiness, surprise, fear, anger, disgusts and sadness etc are universal emotions which aer expressed with the same distinctive configurations. Anthropologists say: even though emotions might be expressed similarly from an anatomical point of view, cultures are really what influence whom, how and in what context we can express emotions. Conclusively: *look at the first slide of this lecture. How are they expressed depending on cultural context. Answers: women had come to expect their children to die, it was natural and that survival was a miraculous feat. A high expectancy of child death was a powerful shaper for maternal thinking and feeling. Answer: a maternal feeling and practice can articulate itself through. Delayed attachment to infacnts are somethings thought of as temporary household visitors". The cultural expectation of child death led to the differentiation between infants who stood a chance to live versus infants who were born to die.