ANTH 1102 Lecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture I. Intro to Anthropologya. Four Subfields of Anthropology Outline of Current Lecture I. What is Culture?a. Definition as found in RACE bookII. Cultural Universals a. Three shared universalsIII. Ethnographya. Definition of fieldworkIV. Culture is Relevant to SubfieldsCurrent LectureI. What is Culture?a. “The sum of partially shared knowledge and behavior that is acquired, learned, and constructed. It is a historically contingent way of life expressed in artifacts, institutions and actions” –RACE b. Basically, culture is everything about people that is not biological or genetic. Example: The ability to talk is biological, not culture. The way someone talks is culture. Similarly, the ability to walk is biological, not culture. The way someone walks, his or her particular style, is cultural. - Because culture embraces the biological aspect and the individual manipulation of that aspect, anthropology says Nature AND Nurture, not Nature vs. Nurture. a. Nature- Biology, what you were born with.b. Nurture- Environment, the manipulation of the biological aspect. II. Cultural Universals a. Things that are present in all culturesi. Language or language varietyii. Classification systems- Age, gender, race, class, etc. iii. Kinship (sharing a relation within a group)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.III. Ethnographya. The process of documenting culture and the product of that documentation b. Fieldwork- going out there and participating in what you are trying to document;participant observation. IV. Culture is Relevant to all Four Subfieldsa. Linguistic- using language as a way to describe social interactions; certain cultures identify with certain languages.b. Archaeology- reconstructing the past through remains that can describe previouscultural traditions. c. Biological- important in showing the evolution of humans, therefore culture.d. Cultural- of course culture is relevant to this