How we learn culture
True or False: Human babies are born automatically knowing the culture of their parents.
what is false?
Any physical object made and used by humans, like a smartphone, a shoe, or an ancient arrowhead.
what is an artifact?
A shared system of spoken words or written signs that humans use to talk to each other and pass down secrets.
what is language?
Judging another country’s culture using your own rules, and thinking your own culture is the best one.
What is ethnocentrism?
The movement of cultural traits and ideas from one society to another.
what is diffusion?
Unlike speaking a language, things like breathing, crying, and sleeping are this type of natural, born-with trait.
what is biological/natural?
The physical styles of buildings, houses, and schools that people construct to live and work in.
what is architecture?
Anything that stands for a bigger idea, like a red octagon meaning "stop" or a heart meaning "love."
what is a symbol?
The rule that we should try to understand another culture’s habits without judging them as good or bad.
What is cultural relativism?
Internal invention or discovery of new ideas, tools, and social practices.
what is Innovation?
The very first group of people who teach a child how to speak, eat, and behave properly.
what is family?
The tools and inventions a society creates to solve daily problems and make life easier.
what is technology?
Old stories passed down through generations to explain how the world or a group of people began.
what is a myth/legend?
When an anthropologist travels to live inside a community for a long time to learn how they live firsthand.
What is fieldwork?
The rapid, worldwide intensification of cultural, economic, and technological exchange.
what is globalization?
Unwritten rules of a society, like waiting your turn in line or saying "please" and "thank you."
what are norms?
This universal physical need is shaped by culture, deciding what is considered a delicious meal versus what is gross or forbidden.
what is food?
A special ceremony or celebration done the same way every time, like a birthday party, graduation, or wedding
what is a ritual?
study of a culture or community, usually based on fieldwork.
What is an ethnography?
Mutual exchange and adaptation between cultures in sustained contact.
what is acculturation?
The process of learning your culture from the time you are a baby by watching and copying others.
what is enculturation/ learning/growing up?
Clothes are a part of material culture. This type of clothing is worn to show a person's specific job, status, or role.
what is uniform?
Moving your hands, head, or body to communicate a message without using any words.
what is a gesture?
True or False: Anthropologists only study people who live in faraway, isolated jungles.
what is false?
The blending of religious beliefs or cultural traits from different societies to form something entirely new.
What is syncretism/ cultural mixing?