ANTH 1000 Lecture 30: The Modern World

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Jocelyn Linnekin

Document Summary

We all learn what we know through others within our own country/culture. We learn what is good and what is sinful. We learn what a foreigner is, or what categories base people as different from us. There is nothing natural about cultural learning. We are the only animal with culture. We are the only animal where parents extensively teach their young what to do, how to act, etc. There are always intermarriages or sexual relations between adjacent groups. There are no direct lines of descent going through our history. Indigenous peoples become ethnic groups" - must organize themselves as ethnic nations.