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1	Defining “culture” and cultural anthropology Howard Culbertson Southern Nazarene University
2	Cultural Anthropology -- an academic discipline
3	"Culture is what makes you..." Culture is what makes you a stranger when you are away from home
4	Defining culture Philip Bock – What makes you a stranger when you’re away from home Ruth Benedict – learned patterns Charles Kraft – Complex, integrated coping mechanism Bob Sjogren -- What makes us “us” and them “them”
5	Viewing culture as successive levels Diagram by Lloyd Kwast
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13	"An iceberg as an analogy..." An iceberg as an analogy of culture
14	From Gary Weaver in Culture, Communication and Conflict: Readings in Intercultural Relations
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16	"Culture is a complex" 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)
17	The Cultural 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)
18	Cultural Universals George Murdock’s 70 cultural universals
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20	9 cultural universals
21	1. Place and time
22	2. Family life
23	3. Economics
24	4. Food, clothing, shelter and transportation
25	5. Communication
26	6. Government
27	7. Arts and recreation
28	8. Education
29	9. Quest for the supernatural
30	Sociocultural change