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What does cultural learning depend on?
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symbols
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What did the British anthropologist Edward Tyler say about culture?
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that it is acquired by humans as members of society
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What is enculturation?
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the process by which a child learns his or her culture
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How did Clifford Geertz characterize culture?
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Clifford Geertz characterized culture as a set of control mechanisms that govern behavior.
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What is an example of a cultural trait that typically is learned unconsciously?
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how close to stand next to someone when you are talking with them
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When did anthropologist Leslie White say culture originated?
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Anthropologist Leslie White said culture originated when people acquired the ability to use symbols
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The human capacity for culture has an evolutionary basis that extends back at least...
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2.5 million years. This date corresponds to early toolmakers whose products survive in the archaeological record.
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Which human traits reflect the fact that our primate ancestors lived in trees?
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graping ability, depth and color vision, learning ability based on a large brain, substantial parental investment in a limited number of offspring (NOT echolocation made possible by overlapping visual fields.)
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What was the doctrine accepted by anthropologists in the 19th century called "the psychic unity of man" about?
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regardless of their genes or physical appearance people can learn any cultural tradition
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What is practice theory?
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the approach to culture that focuses on how individuals manage to influence, create, and transform the world they live in
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What is meant when it is said that culture is contested?
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different groups in society struggle with one another over whose ideas, values, goals, and beliefs will prevail.
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what is real culture?
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what people actually do
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what are four traits of culture?
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integrated, shared, symbolic, all-encompassing
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What is a pidgin an example of?
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acculturation
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what are the mechanisms of cultural change?
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acculturation, globalization, independent invention, diffusion
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