ANT208H5 Midterm: The Anthropology of Everyday Midterm
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Lecture 1: anthropology, popular culture, and everyday life: culture: a guide for interoperating action. For example, people not following the norms of society and breaking the law where the state may get involved: popular culture, folk culture, public culture this is set apart from high culture (elite, small minority) Popular culture is apart of and integrated into everyday life for example, weddings, ceremonies and other social symbolism: popular culture has a vital role in, the expression of cultural identity, the well-being of social groups and individuals. That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired (learned, not innate or genetics) by man as a member of society. ^capabilities is the potential while habits are behaviour. Culture is not only observable behaviour but the shared ideals, values, and beliefs that people use to interpret experience and generate behaviour that are reflected by their behaviour .
