think about: what is “culture”? how do you know it when you see it?
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Think About:
What is “culture”?
How do you know it when you see it?
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What makes humans human?
Implies manipulating nature
Thought, experimentation, innovation
TOOLS
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What makes humans human?
Representing the world
Higher purpose
Not evolutionary
ART
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What makes humans human?
Shows conceptions of place in the universe
Beliefs passed on from one generation to next
RELIGION
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So…Is Culture a Human Thing?
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Animal Culture
Evidence of Culture Among Non-Humans
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Japanese Macaque
a.k.a.: Snow Monkeys
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Koshima, 1953
Japanese researchers leave sweet potatoes on a beach for a troop of macaques
The potatoes are covered with sand and the monkeys have to rub them to get the sand off
One female, named Imo, begins to wash the potato in water
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Soon others start washing potatoes
After four years, 18% of adults and 78% of juveniles are washing potatoes
Washing in salt water makes them tastier
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Innovation in 1956
Imo discovers that dropping wheat grains in water will separate them from sand
Others adopt the innovation
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Nagano, 1963
Researchers feed wild macaques soybeans
Some fall into a hot spring
Female named Mukubili goes in the water after them
She likes the warmth and stays
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Others follow suit…
Started with young
Then mothers
Then rest of troop
Soon they were enjoying the “hot tub” throughout the winter
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Hot Tub Etiquette
Grooming is welcome
Don’t stay too long
No splashing!
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Innovation…
Young monkeys discover something they can do with snow…
SNOWBALLS!
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Snowball Fights?
No
Monkey youth throw them in hot spring
Roll them as they melt
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LessonsIs this culture?
InnovationExperimentation and discovery
AdoptionOther members of tribe
TransmissionAcross generations
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Other evidence
Small birds pecking through bottle caps on cream in Britain
Local “dialects” of bird song
Tool making in chimps and crows
Whales and dolphins, language and customs
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What is culture?
The sum total of knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of a society.
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Cultural TraitsA single element of a normal practice of a culture
Material CultureTools, clothing, buildings
Artifacts
Non-material CultureBeliefs, practices, values
Mentifacts