AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Artifact, Public Culture
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Ethnography: process of discovering and describing a culture based on the insiders viewpoint , discrete cultures (tribal are more difficult to find today. They don"t exist anymore, they live with other people and are influenced by other people: anthropologists study micro-culture (sub-cultures) within a society. Culture shock: state of anxiety that results from the inability to predict the behavior of others or to act appropriately in cross-cultural settings. You must know the culture cues in that society so you will not be insensitive to the people of that society. Culture concept: central concept in anthropology, central marker of what it means to be human. All humans have culture: all humans have the equipment to learn a culture, and pass down the culture from generation to generation (equipped) We have memory, we can learn language, etc: all societies can have culture, and all individuals can learn any culture. Actors are not passive incorporators of culture.
