Assignment:essay
Subject:Anthropology
Study Level:College
Page Count:3
Number of sources:3
Spacing:double
Deadline: Sat, 2pm
Topic:discuss one cultural symbol
Order Number:8946
Details:Using terms and concepts from the readings and lecture notes, discuss one cultural symbol **. How does this symbol represent cultural aspects of life? How did/does the symbol come to have this meaning? Do you remember any instances of learning what this symbol means, and/or what its cultural significance is? What meaning does your chosen symbol convey to others? You should use terms from lecture notes/the textbook such as Enculturation-the process by which a society’s culture is passed on from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society. pg. 330 Cultural relativism-the idea that one must suspend judgement of other peoples’ practices in order to understand those practices in their own culture. pg. 343 Cultural relativism is essential as a research tool. pg. 344 Artifact-any object fashioned or altered by humans. pg. 104 Worldview-the collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of their reality. pg. 569 Diffusion-the spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another. “cultural-borrowing†pg. 238, 624 (also, read pg. 239) Acculturation-the massive cultural change that occurs in a society when it experiences intensive firsthand contact with a more powerful society. pg. 627 Symbol-a sound, gesture, mark, or other sign that is arbitrarily linked to something else and represents it in a meaningful way. pg. 335 Diffusion and Acculturation as appropriate relative to your symbol. Also, “symbol†itself should be defined in your essay. -use your textbook or the class notes!!! Notes: Pg. 266- With social stratification, symbols of special status and privilege that ranked people according to the kind of work they did or the family they were born into appeared in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia. Works Cited Haviland, William H,. et al. Anthropology: The Human Challenge. 14th ed. Wadsworth: Cengage Learning, 2014. 29-30. Print.
