Unit 1: Module 1.1/1.2 Culture

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Learned and shared ways of behaving and thinking.

Question 2

E.B Tylor

Answer 2

Anthropology founder. Culture is learned and taught shared among a group of people.
“Complex whole which includes knowledge beliefs arts morals laws customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”

Question 3

5 Characteristics of Culture

Answer 3

Learned, shared, based on symbols(language), is patterned/integrated(parts reflect other aspects), usually adaptive/dynamic/changing

Question 4

Naive realism

Answer 4

The idea that reality is the same for people everywhere.

Question 5

Bohannan

Answer 5

Shakespeare in the bush example of naive realism.
Tells the story of hamlet.
Their culture: ghost =bad omen or witchcraft. Multiple wives is accepted. Rude to speak against elders. Late husbands family was expected to keep the women in the family.
Bohannan Culture: Ghost. One Wife. Speak against anyone doing wrong. Taboo to marry your brother’s wife.

Question 6

Ethnocentrism

Answer 6

A belief or feeling that one’s own way of life is desirable and actually superior to others. Personal biases

Question 7

Miner

Answer 7

Body Ritual among the Nacirema.
Article is a satire referencing american culture in 1950. Nacirema is America spelled backwards. Purpose is to make the familiar strange. Lesson of cautioning against ethnocentrism everyone’s culture will be strange at first.