ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clifford Geertz, Raymond Williams, Edward Burnett Tylor
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Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the english language. Early english meaning: cultivation ; more like a verb. Education - something they can get or become; sense of developing mental capacity of an individual. Spanish: culto - more educated and more refined in their knowledge. All groups have culture; cannot judge based on technology. Universal endpoint of all people - people become civilized. Desdice mucho de la cultura y urban;i dad de cualquier person. The culture of specific people, nationalities, groups. Every group of people has culture; different ways of religion, relationships, etc. Should not think of culture as a singular term, but a plural term since everyone has worldly ideas and practices. Sensitive to diversity passed down to germans. Culture is a vast assemblage of knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom . Study cultures (plural) rather than culture (singular; or civilization)
