ANTH 0780 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Clifford Geertz, Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Learning
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Cultural is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities -sir edward tylor: critical defining feature of culture: it includes patterns of behavior acquired by people as members of society. Enculturation: the process by which a child learns his or her culture. Cultural learning depends on the uniquely developed human capacity to use symbols (signs that have no necessary or natural connection to the things they signify or for which they stand) Cultural can be taught directly or transmitted through observation. Culture: ideas based n symbols that are programs, plans, or recipes governing clifford geertz. Dependent upon symbolling culture consists of tools, implements, utensils, clothing, ornaments, customs, institutions, beliefs, rituals, games, works of art, language, etc -leslie. Cultural is an attribute not of individuals but of individuals as members of groups. Culture takes the natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express them in particular ways.
