Resources-What is Anthropology Reading, What is Culture Reading?
Waorani film,
10 sentences per paragraph
3 Key Concepts and 4 terms from What is culture packet per question.
Evidence ( from Waorani film )
Analysis ( Why this is important)
These are the 2 you will be answering!!
1. What is culture?
2. What does it mean to be a person?
3. What does it mean to live in society?
4. How are we the same and different form each other?
5. Why does anthropology matter?
6. To what extent is it possible to know others?
Sample Response:
What is culture
Anthropologists define culture as an organized system of symbols, ideas, explanations, beliefs and material production that people like the Waorani create and utilize in their daily lives. The Waorani are a hunter gardener society that live in the Amazon Rainforest. Their belief system and core values are based in sharing. Sharing symbolically shapes their culture and identity. This is observed in their interactions with each other throughout the day. At mealtime when the grandmother shares food equally to all groups from the cooking pot. The Waorani learn materialist skills that are important to their survival as young children through a process of enculturation. We see materialist skills like hunting developing when young boys play games with spears, stabbing a termite nest. The girls learn materialist skills when they accompany their mothers to the manioc gardens. The Waorani believe both sets of skills have equal importance. The process of enculturation, learning important cultural norms like sharing and material skills is a culturally adaptive trait to be used in the jungle enable the Waorani to survive in balance with their environment.
What is culture terms...
culture
enculturation
symbols
