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The Anthropology of Learning 1
Author(s) -
Wokott Harry F.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1982.13.2.05x1827g
Subject(s) - enculturation , sociology , language acquisition , cultural transmission in animals , anthropological linguistics , anthropology , educational anthropology , cultural learning , epistemology , ethnography , linguistics , psychology , mathematics education , applied linguistics , clinical linguistics , philosophy , biology , genetics
Although anthropologists have often reported child‐training practices and formal efforts to transmit culture, they have not been overly concerned with the ways that individuals within a society actually “acquire” cu1ture. This paper calls for more attention to culture acquisition and suggests how the study of first‐language acquisition seems to offer a useful model. Attention is also given to inventorying myriad concepts and ideas about learning that anthropologists have contributed but have not subjected to systematic inquiry. ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION, CULTURAL ACQUISITION, CULTURAL TRANSMISSION, ENCULTURATION, LEARNING.