You will be answering these questions in paragraph format.
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
How is culture shared?
How does culture help us in a state of nature?
How is culture all encompassing?
What are cultural patterns that are integrated? How can they shape personalities and core values?
Define culture as adaptive and maladaptive with examples.
Define cultural universals, generalities, and particularities. Use examples.
Individual Agency
Real culture vs. Ideal culture.
national culture,
international culture,
subculture,
ethnocentrism,
cultural relativism,
human rights,
cultural rights,
Intellectual property rights
