Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Culture Shock, Industrial Revolution, Emic And Etic
19 Jan 2015
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#2 used before 1500 as a action not a noun; tending and cultivation of something. 1500+ extended to humans; cultivation of the mind. Civilization was thought of as a stage of development that only some people reached. Civilization as culture; some people were at the top and other were very low and barley human (uncultured). Vary a lot from the antro prospective as culture as a way of life: all ppl have culture, way of life, multiple cultures. ( came into effect in late 19th to 20th century ) Main point of anthro culture; is ordinary ( all actions can be permutated by culture) Mental: all knowledge and info in the world that children learn growing up. (infromation, skills, attutide, notions ideas beliefs, perceptions, etc. ) Everything people do, the way we habitually act. Particular cultures tend to act a particular way. Trial and error learning is also called individual situational learning.
