culture Flashcards
What is Culture?
Culture is all of the specific way of living or activity with a specific group of people.
What is Anthropology?
Anthropology is the study of human beings, their societies, and cultures.
What is an Anthropologist?
An anthropologist is someone who studies human societies and cultures.
What is a Cultural Iceberg?
The cultural iceberg is an image that represents the visible and hidden aspects of culture.
What are Holidays and celebrations?
provides clues about a nation’s culture, history of the nation, or religious beliefs.
What is Art?
The arts provide insights into cultural traditions. For example movies, TV shows, drawings, paintings, sculptures.
What is Traditional arts and crafts?
can help us understand the traditions of that society and reflect its identity.
What is Food?
Food can reflect regional, national, and global culture.
What is Architecture?
each culture has its own unique architecture that makes them who they are, for example old buildings and other types of architecture.
What is Clothing?
clothing is something traditional that people from different cultures wear which makes a culture unique.
What is time, place and space’s effect on culture?
time because of what we have access to, for example we have access to technology but before they didn’t. place and space some people have different cultures because of the wear they live in which depends on if you’re living on mountains or islands.
What is Athens / Greece?
Stayed at home/indoors
Supervised the household
Kept track of money, raised kids, managed slaves
Not educated
Could not own property
Participated in religious ceremonies.
Had good sailors
City on the coast
Focused on trade and business
What is Sparta / Greece?
Athens rivals
Raised strong and vigorous
Lived in the mountains
Participated in sports
Didn’t care about business, and gained money by taking lands
Stayed fit in order to have strong children.
Lot’s of freedom and responsibility while men were away at war.
Could own property.
Managed household, slaves, raised kids.
What is Geography?
What the landscape looks like, that can affect culture because it can make it harder or easier to live. So Sparta and Athens were so different from each other because their geography is so different, like Sparta is in the mountains, and Athens is close to the ocean.
What is Technological Innovation?
Technology, it influences a culture.