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Cultural Anthropology
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Intro. To Cultural Anthropology
1. What is the anthropological way of understanding “culture” and why do you think this perspective is important?
“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive” - Mahatma Gandhi
Webster’s dictionary defines culture as the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior; it is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices of a people. In the text, anthropology is described as being “about similarity and difference-and how we need to understand and act on both”. (Leslie and Evans,1) Combining these two definitions yields what I believe to be the anthropological way of understanding culture; it is the understanding of the similarities and differences of attitudes, values, go
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