Name: The Nature of Culture
Released: 1983-09-14

Faces of Culture

S1 · E2 — The Nature of Culture

S1:E2 · The Nature of Culture

Episodes

26 episodes in this season

The Nature of Anthropology

28 min

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The Nature of Culture

28 min

How Cultures Are Studied

28 min

Language and Communication

28 min

Psychological Anthropology

28 min

Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology

28 min

Patterns of Subsistence: Food Foragers and Pastoralists

28 min

Patterns of Subsistence: The Food Producers

28 min

Economic Anthropology

28 min

E10

The Highland Maya: A Case Study in Economic Anthropology

28 min

E11

Sex and Marriage

28 min

E12

Family and Household

28 min

E13

The Yucatec Maya: A Case Study in marriage and the Family

28 min

E14

Kinship and Descent (Part I)

28 min

E15

Kinship and Descent (Part II)

28 min

E16

Age, Common Interest, and Stratification

28 min

E17

The Aymara: A Case Study in Social Stratification

28 min

E18

Political Organization

28 min

E19

Social Control

28 min

E20

Religion and Magic

28 min

E21

The Asmat of New Guinea: A Case Study in Religion and Magic

28 min

E22

The Arts

28 min

E23

New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts

28 min

E24

Cultural Change

28 min

E25

Cricket the Trobriand Way: A Case Study in Cultural Change

28 min

E26

The Future of Humanity

28 min

Faces of Culture

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The Nature of Culture

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Sep 14, 1983

This episode focuses on culture in societies. It defines culture as a unique set of values, beliefs and practices those enables us together to reap the benefits from the locality in which we live. The program begins to answer such questions as: How does culture develop? How does it change and adapt to the world around it? The program delves deeper into the meaning of concepts such as ethnocentrism and cultural relativism to emphasize their importance in the field of anthropology. The need to understand how differing values and beliefs meet the needs of specific cultures is seen in contrasting examples from other cultures. The Txukarrame Indians and the Boran tribes of Kenya are examined to illustrate the degree of variety, as well as the parallels between and among cultures. The program concludes by showing the devastating results of one culture's inability to adapt, demonstrating that the loss affects us all.

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Faces of Culture

TV Series

198328m

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The Nature of Culture

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Sep 14, 1983

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