ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Potlatch, Homo Sapiens, Ethnocentrism
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Culture allows us to adapt to the world. Race differentiated by our cultural make up. What we learn from each other vs. what was programmed by our genes. Being able to have culture is programmed by our genes. The program enables culture-specific ways of acting, living, and thinking. Procreative relationships relationships that go with humans having children. Sharing and giving patterns of sharing goods and of giving gifts. Education how do people transit knowledge from culture to culture. What is transmitted to us from family, friends, etc. Ability to have a culture is genetically determined/programmed. Enables us to learn specific cultures ways of acting, thinking. Popularly, but not in anthropology, a culture also refers to a group of people (rather than their ways of acting, living, and thinking) A culture is a group of people i. e. many cultures at this school (many people with different ethnic backgrounds) Culture (what people do, think, etc. ) vs. society (the people)
