ANTH 2 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mattress, Emic And Etic, Middle Finger
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All aspects of culture is learned because we are born as babies. Middle finger: flipping someone off, giving off a negative connotation and implying that you feel upset or angry at a certain person but in other cultures, putting up that finger won"t mean anything. Illustrate x number of features of culture with an example. You can"t have your own individual culture because it is something that is shared among a group of people. Taking off our shoes when we go into the house. Dynamic: may seem stable, but it"s always changing. People are being innovative and challenging social norms. Emic and etic analysis of the same thing. Fasting as part of the christian culture. Etic: people who believe in jesus christ are tortured and required to starve themselves for a certain amount of days in order to be blessed.
