Defining Culture

Components of Culture

E. B. Tylor, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead

Cognitive processes

Behaviors

Material creations

Cultural Processes

Leslie White, Kroeber & Kluckhohn

Standards

Clifford Geertz and Ward Goodenough

Additional Features of Culture

Culture is Shared

Culture is Cumulative, Dynamic, Adaptive, and Diverse

Culture is Integrated

Ideal Culture and Real Culture

• Anthropology Around Us Cute Protein

Subcultures and Ethnic Groups

Subcultures

Ethnic Groups

Race

Human Biological Variation—clines and plasticity

Skin color clines

Stature and plasticity

Race as a Social Construct

Culture in the Subfields of Anthropology

Is the Culture Concept Valid?

Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Suggested Web Sites