ANTH 1003 Chapter : Chapter 1
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Culture complex, symbolic system of communication that all humans share (largest definition). Just because genocide is cultural does not mean it is okay. Not nature (biology) vs. nurture (culture) nature and nurture. Society is an institution; culture is what makes you laugh and cry. Learned born with capacity for culture but we learn it. Integreated: a set of guidelines for our behavior, overt: don"t pick your nose. Tacit: professors do not walk among students in russian classrooms. Contextual looks at human behavior in terms of cultural context. To make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. Ethnography fieldwork and description: etic: outsider"s perspective, emic: insider"s perspective. Ethnology: comparison for universals: not compared for better or worse but same vs. difference. Languages categorize reality differently: tojolab"al k"ab" arm and hand prototypically hand obligatorily possessed my hand yalk"ab" finger literally child of the hand . Primatology: human variation, human paleontology, biological forensic anthropology.
