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Defining “culture” and cultural anthropology Howard Culbertson Southern Nazarene University

Cultural Anthropology -- an academic discipline

Culture is what makes you a stranger when you are away from home

Culture: a set of rules or standards that produce behavior that falls within a range of variance a society considers proper and acceptable -- William Haviland

Culture is a complex, integrated coping mechanism. Culture consists of 1. Learned concepts and behavior 2. Underlying perspectives (worldview) 3. Resulting products nonmaterial (customs and rituals) material (artifacts)

Cultural anthropology is concerned with: ( we’ll now look at 14 categories or items studied by cultural anthropologists)

1. Perspective Holistic (as opposed to atomistic or narrow) Comparative The gamut from relativism to ethnocentrism Get your hands dirty (fieldwork) Etic (from outsider’s vantage point) Emic (from an insider’s vantage point)

2. Material artifacts

3. Communication Symbols, language and media

4. Status, roles, relationships

5. Life cycle (birth, naming, coming of age, anniversaries, death, ancestorhood)

6. Societal groups social classes, economic stratification, ethnicity

7. Marriage and family

8. Child rearing and personality formation

9. Kinship / descent systems

10. Economics distribution of goods and services

11. Legal systems Norms, customs, laws

12. Political organization Leadership / decision making

13. Religion Worldview, beliefs and ritual practices

14. Expressive arts

15. Sociocultural change

Defining “culture”