ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: American Sign Language, Culturology, Cultural Learning
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The learning of culture that takes pace as you grow up is known as enculturation. The linguists was about two scientists traveling the world to document endangered languages. Their feeling about the relationship between language and culture is that language loss means cultural loss. Acculturation: exchange of features when groups come in consistent contact. Ethnography: the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures (greater cultural uniformity and less social differentiation) Traditionally, becoming a cultural anthropologist required field experience: Emic (native-oriented) approach: investigates how natives think, categorize the world, express thoughts. Etic (science-oriented) approach: emphasizes the categories, interpretations, and features that the anthropologist considers important. Human society has evolved through savagery, barbarism, and civilization (morgan) Unilinear path: animism, polytheism, monotheism, and science (tylor) Diverse paths can lead to same cultural results (boas) The view of culture as integrated, patterned. Ethnographic realism: describing a culture"s beliefs and behaviors completely objectively. Writer"s goal: to produce an accurate, objective, scientific account.
