ANTH 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eskimo Kinship, Margaret Mead, Enculturation
Document Summary
Maya people of yucatan culturally construct gender based on economic and social responsibilities. In american culture, birth is perceived as something dangerous and something women should leave to the precision of technology and biomedicine. Stage of human development that individuals pass through on their way to adulthood. Formal enculturation mechanisms (schooling) are conceptualized that children can be initiated into the world of adults throughout different stages supervised by grownups, who also control children"s access to the adult world. Today, television, computers, and much of social life is taking over the primary role of adults in the west. "kinderculture" - the role of mega-media corporations in constructing a culture using fantasy and desire as prime symbols to be consumed by children. Understandings of values, power relationships, and the traits of a good citizen are embedded in visual culture - video games, television, film, malls, amusement parks (giroux) Birth is the beginning of the enculturation process in every society.
