How are people shaped by culture?

Anthropology 100 with Pickering at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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By: Tyler Diderich
Textbook:

Cengage Advantage Books: Understanding Humans: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Created: 2012-04-16
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What is culture?

how we make meanings, how we act towards other people and environment

Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism

belief of own group being superior to other group

Emic and Etic perspectives

emic has meaning to society itself, etic has meaning to science world

Is culture circumscribed by place?

different regions, no clear boundaries, diffusion and movements

Is culture shared by all in a group?

personality affects each individual's look on their culture, positioned subjects, and power

Does culture persist across time?

some things continue but the relationships to them may change, acculturation is taking another groups culture, or ethnocide when a culture is wiped out

Is culture authentic?

performing identity and creating appropriations

iconography

Indus Valley seal of meditating yogi

Colonialism

domination of one group by another; forms of transformation: political, economic, social, and cultural

Distinguishes between colonizers and colonized

can include private ventures and direct administration by state, involves ongoing ventures in the metro

colonial transformations

decimation of indigenous peoples by disease and violence

the natives

people who live in a place, colonized peoples, anthropologists want the native's point of view

Decolonization

Papua New Guinea becomes independent state in 1975:

Siberia

Chulym: very overlooked language in Siberia; dying language

India-Soar Language

complicated number system, base 12 and 20