Lesson 3 Anthropology

Question 1

studies human species and it’s
immediateancestors includes four main sub
disciplines - sociocultural, archeological,
biological and linguistic. Each discipline studies
adaptation.

Answer 1

Anthropology

Question 2

• Every self has two faces: personne and
moi

Answer 2

Marcel Mauss

Question 3

According to him:
• Moi is a person’s basic identity.
• Personne, on the other hand, is
composed of the social concepts of what
it means to be who he is.

Answer 3

Marcel Mauss

Question 4

• An American cultural anthropologist who
defined culture as “a system of inherited
conceptions expressed in symbolic forms
by means of which men communicate,
perpetuate, and develop their knowledge
about and attitudes towards life
• Writes the concept of “The Impact of the
Concept of Culture on the Concept of
Man,
• “ We should look for what makes
people/cultures different, not the same;
• Culture reveals the link between what
man is capable of and how he actually
behaves, which in turn helps define
human nature
• Culture is the “accumulated totality” of
symbolic patterns that appear in different
societies

Answer 4

Clifford Geertz