ANTH 1003 Chapter : Chapter 2 Filled In Notes
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Through observation and analysis she has learned many of the rules of cultural behavior. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group. Ethnoscience: a theoretical approach that focuses on the ways in which members of a culture use language to classify their world and that holds that anthropology should be the study of cultural systems of classification. Focuses on the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures. Idea that culture is a mental template that determines how members of a society understand their world. Ethnoscience is one position or technique within cognitive anthropology which focuses on the relationship between the mind and society. Ethnobotany: describes the ways in which different cultures classify plants, how plants are used for food, medicine, clothing, shelter, hunting, religious ceremonies, an anthropological discipline devoted to describing the medical systems of different cultures.