ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural System, Culture Change, Arab Culture
Document Summary
Anth 1006 , lecture 7 , culture change. Cultural system tries to maintain stability , order , and continuity. Two sources of culture change external to cultural system (3) , internal to the cultural system (2) Technological change stimulates change in cultural/social conditions. Can create new problems that require additional cultural change to solve. Any change in ( environment , technology , or demography ) will affect the socio-cultural system ( economics , religion , politics , family. kinship , social relationships ) Transfer of cultural ideal and artifacts from one society to. Direct contact - elements of a culture taken up by neighboring society and gradually spread farther and farther afield (ie. paper) Immediate diffusion - diffusion occurs through the agency of third parties (ie. crusades brought arab culture to europe) Stimulus diffusion - knowledge of a trait belonging to another culture stimulates the invention or development of a local equivalent (ie. cherokee and hawaiian alphabets)
