ANTH 101 Lecture 2: Notes
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Culture knowledge that is learned, shared, used by people to interpret experience and generate behavior. The idea of learning and the need to label the lifestyles associated with particular groups led to the definition of culture. There were 2 different explanations for group differences: group behavior is inherited. In most malignant extreme takes the form of racism: group behavior is learned. The way people dress, eat, and talk can be acquired. Supposedly, a aby born in africa, if immediately transported to china and raised like other children there, would grow up to dress, eat, and talk like a chinese. At the moment of birth, we lack culture. We interpret experience through culture american think dogs are like humans in furry suits, but dogs in india are viewed negatively. The meaning of a dog is different in both countries. 2 different types of culture: explicit and tacit: explicit culture culture that people can talk about and of which they are aware.
