Chapter 8 Flashcards
What is Historical?
it is shaped by events and reconstructed by every generation
What is Holistic?
To anthropologist because it is more than the sum of its parts
What is Agency?
refers to the exercise of at least some control of their lives by human beings
What is Symbolic Cultural Understandings?
to help resolve ambiguities inherent in everyday life
What are Institutions?
Are complex, variable, and enduring forms of cultural practice that organize social life
What is Individual actors?
are parts of groups with dynamic relationships
What is Ethnocentric Individuals?
value their own culture over that of other.
What is Cultural Relativism?
Refers to understanding a culture on its own terms.
What is Anthropologist from controversial cultural?
Recognize some cultural practices as trivial (eating insects) or horrifying (genocide).
What is colonizing states?
regularly try to determine the cultural priorities of the colonized.
What is culture?
Patterns of learned behavior and ideas
- Individuals acuire culture as members of society, together with material artifacts and structures creates and used by humans
- Earlier generation, but this heritage can be modified
What is socialization?
Process of learning to live as a member of a group
- Mastering skills of interaction with other
- Learning hot to cope with behavioral rules established by a social group
What is Enculturation?
Process by which humans learn what ways of thinking and feeling are considered appropriate by their respective cultures
How did human culture develop?
- Learned
- Shared
- Patterned
- Adaptive
- Symbolic
What is transmission?
Ability to copy a behavior by observing or learning
