ANTH 205 Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture 1 Culture 2 Anthropologists definition of Culture 3 Things Anthropologists agree about culture 4 How to measure Culture 5 3 types of Learning 6 Culture has 7 main attributes 7 Culture has 3 main components 8 Culture has 2 dimensions 9 Culture has Organization Levels 10 Culture has 3 main components Outline of Current Lecture 1 Review 2 Enthnography 3 Ethnology Current Lecture 1 Review Ethnocentrism thinking your culture is superior Cultural relativism you see other cultures through their eyes Sterotyping Ascribing a group s collective traits to all of its members Also the failure to recoginize diversity within groups What is not an attribute of culture Accumulative Variable Organic Integrated or symbolic ORGANIC Culture has 7 main attributes Extra organic Continuous Accumulative Symbolic Variable Interchangeable Integrated The process by which children learn culture is known as enculturation What is not a subfield of anthropology sociocultural archaeology linguistic physical history HISTORY What strategie is unique to anthropology ethnography 2 Ethnography fieldwork to collect cultural data Long duration research 1 year Reports written in ethnographic present tense Phases Planning Language Funding Logistics Culture shock Write up Analysis Emic native perspective and explanations Participant Observation not just watching but actively joining and experiencing a cultural activity to better understand Etic observer perspective and explanations Outsider Observer objective appears more scientific 3 Ethnology interpretation and comparative studies of cultures to test hypotheses about humanity