AN101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Intersex, Two-Spirit, Structural Violence
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An101 chapter 5: culture, the individual, and identity. Learning is socially and culturally shaped by differences in status and experience. Cultural learning: how individuals learn from one another within a culture. Anthropologists who want to understand how individuals perceive and make sense of their world have incorporated psychological theories into their studies. Traditionally involved anthropological adoption and cross-cultural evaluation of diff. theoretical orientations in psychology. First 20th century anthropologists to take interest in psychological matters were influenced by psychology of freud and attempted to test in non-western settings certain freudian ideas about personality development based on social relations in late. Pattern f analysis that remained central to much psychological anthropology: that of critically examining universal statements about human nature produced by western researchers, esp. those based on assumptions about how people in western societies are supposed to be. Esp. important when researchers make extreme claims about all humans get publicity and generate controversy.
