Enculturation in the traditional cultures
Bridging Prehistory, Traditional and Contemporary Rituals and Habits: Enculturation
Bibliography
Growing Up in New Guinea
A Comparative Study of Primitive
Education, by Margaret Mead
[Linguistic Anthropology] ... Linguistic anthropologists Elinor Ochs and Bambi
Schieffelin, in a remarkable series of studies [5][6][7][8] addressed the important
anthropological topic of socialization (the process by which infants, children, and
foreigners become members of a community, learning to participate in its culture),
using linguistic as well as ethnographic methods. They discovered that the processes
of enculturation and socialization do not occur apart from the process of language
acquisition, but that children acquire language and culture together in what amounts to
an integrated process. More ...
Psychological Anthropology focuses on enculturation, the process by which culture is
passed from one generation to the next. Cross-cultural examples of child-rearing,
socialization, mental illness, and healing are studied.
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