ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Edward Burnett Tylor
15 Dec 2012
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Is learned from others in the process of growing up in a particular human society or group. Is shared by the members of that society or group. is responsible for most of the differences in ways of thinking an behaving that exist between human societies or groups. Is so essential in completing the psychological and social development of individuals that a cultureless individual would not be considered normal by other people: culture is shared and learned and makes individuals part of a larger group. Mental components include all the knowledge and information about the world and society that children learn while growing up: The culture of a group consists of shared, socially, learned knowledge and patterns of behavior. Races does not exist in the human population. There is an important geographic effect on culture. It"s not determined by biology, it"s not predisposed in our system, it"s learnt. Cultural behaviours is not determined by the genetic makeup of a certain population.
