ANTH 1003 Chapter : ANTH 1003
Document Summary
Culture is a complex, symbolic system of communication that all human beings share (broadest meaning of culture) Humans are cultural animals: human nature is not instinctive, but biocultural, not nature vs. nurture, but nature and nurture. No matter what ethnic background, a person will learn the language they"re exposed to. Yes if they started: cultural ecology: cultures in particular relation to their physical environment out jumping, adaptation, plasticity, other concepts. Innovation new change that springs up: diffusion passing along of new changes. A dispute in donggo: fieldwork and ethnography: fieldwork ethics, strategies, practices: dialogue, critiques: ethnographic present, objectivity . Armchair anthropologists of the late 19th cent: edward burnett tylor, lewis henry morgan, compile accounts from travelers, explorers, missionaries, colonial officials. Savagery barbarianism civilization : cultures evolve from lower forms to higher forms, lowest is savagery. American anthropology: franz boas, critiqued cultural evolution, advocated fieldwork, participant observation, cultural relativism, against racism, ethnocentrism, culture in terms of history and context, historical particularism.
