Anthropology ANTH-A 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Enculturation, Exogamy, Endogamy
4 Nov 2016
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Culture - a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned and shared by a group of people. Shapes our ideas of what is normal and natural, what we can say and do, and even what we can think. Passing cultural information within populations and across generations. Humans establish cultural institutions as mechanisms for enculturating their members. A shared experience developed as a result of living as a member of a group. Learn to communicate and establish patterns of behavior that allow life in community, often in close proximity and sometimes with limited resources. Develop a shared body of cultural knowledge and patterns of behavior. Four elements to understand the workings of a culture. Ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward certain other people. Clear norms based on ideas of age, kinship, sexuality, race, religion, class and legal status.
