ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Determinism, Mcdonaldization
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Jan. 11: the concept of culture (definition and problems, brief history of cultural anthropology and perspectives. Idea that culture is a biological organism in which parts function together in the interest of the maintenance of the whole. Believed applied anthropology shouldn"t be considered as a 5th subfield. One person"s delicacy is another"s disgusting food: drinking. In india water is served and consumed at the end of meal: sleeping. Us early to bed early to rise . Tokyo excessive daytime sleepiness varies by gender/marital status: eliminating. An object, word, or action with a culturally defined meaning that stands for something else with which it has no necessary or natural relationship. We organize our worlds through symbols when i"m nervous i get butterflies . Hard to recognize what"s our cultural learning because its our background. Some learning is intended through formal education. To state that cultures are internally integrated is to assert the principle of holism .