AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Boas, Snowmobile, Acculturation
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Culture matters e. g. , biker gangs, tattoo shops others or to act appropriately in cross-cultural settings. memory, brain. viewpoint . Based on an insider"s point of view, not your point of view. Ethnography: method of discovering & describing a culture based on the insider"s, discrete cultures (tribal) are more difficult to find today, anthropologists study micro-cultures (sub cultures) Culture shock: state of anxiety that results from an inability to predict the behaviour of, impediment of anthropological research, must know cultural cues" for successful research. This is why culture changes from generation to generation and interpret experience (mccurdy). (learn the rules) some cultures they"re treated as food) We acquire culture, we aren"t just born with it. Cultural knowledge: underlies material artifacts (what we make, meanings given to objects) E. g. , i need knowledge to make a cultural artefact: objects & behaviour are 2 other manifestations of cultural knowledge.
