Culture - shared set of beliefs, values, knowledge, and patterns of behavior common to
a group of people
Intersectionality - The intersection of multiple cultural identities
Enculturation - the process of learning cultures/acquiring your own Native culture
Acculturation - Acquiring new cultures
Ethnocentrism - Cultural biases, when you use your own culture as a standard to judge
everyone else
Cultural relativism - Everything that people do makes perfect sense to them/not judging
Etic - Explain something from a material point of view. (Ex. outsider or quantitative)
Emic - Represents something from a non-material point of view. (Ex. how does it feel,
qualitative)
Reprocity - The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Give and
take. Creates obligations
Foraging - Hunting and gathering for a living
Generalized reciprocity - Giving and receiving goods with no immediate or specific
return expected. Gift giving.
Food sharing - Necessary for human survival. Especially during early human evolution.
Salvage anthropology - Activities such as gathering artifacts, or recording cultural rituals
with the belief that a culture is about to disappear.
Documentary - A film made from the directors point of view
Ethnography - An academic study of culture
Reductionist - Reduces an entire culture down to just one or two simple things.
Oversimplified - Simplistic. Makes a culture look simple.
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