ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Potlatch, Earwax, Pseudoscience
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Linguistic and socio-cultural anthropology lecture 1: culture and prejudice. What we learn from each other vs what was programmed by our genes. Specific cultures habits don"t happen because of genetic code. Being able to have culture is programmed by our genes (genetics don"t give us culture but it provides us the ability to develop one) the genetic code enables culture-specific ways of acting, living and thinking: Forming procreative relationships (marriage, parenthood): no universal form of marriage or parenthood: learned behaviour. Sharing and giving (patterns of sharing goods, giving gifts) Providing education (differs among culture: verbal, learning by doing, etc. ) Different ways of speaking (when to speak, when to not, diff languages etc. ) Popularly, but not in anthropology, a culture also refers to a group of people (rather than their ways of acting, living and thinking) Cultures are significantly different, but not infinitely different (we have genetic predisposition to having a culture )
