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Explain from an Anthropological perspective how various factors (e.g. globalization, pandemics, physical environment, etc etc.) have come to affect human behaviour and culture to create the iPod (ie. Why has it come to exist)? What function does this artifact serve culture? 

Answer 1

Do you mean all computers? Because the iPod is too specific and does not fit the definition of culture...." A shared way of life includes the material and nonmaterial products (values, norms, beliefs) transmitted within a particular society from generation to generation (Scupin 2008).

This definition by Tylor provides the earliest written statement of culture, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society” (Tylor 1871). As also stated by Ruth Benedict, “ [culture] is a unifying force for man, the shared ideas and norms, and that there is no conflict between roles of either the individual or society (Patterns of Culture, 1934). Donald Brown (1991) states there are seven universal characteristics of a culture of which computers would be considered as a tool. Additionally, culture is the full range of learned behavior patterns that people acquire as members of society. A culture is a complex, largely interconnected whole that consists of the knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, skills, and habits learned from parents and others in society. Culture is the primary adaptive mechanism for humans” (http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/cglossary.htm#sectC).

Human behavior spans each segment of this world with variations which we call culture, and “every culture has values that are associated with a characteristic may or may not be the same across the spectrum of cultures. Humans think and behave dualistically, yet there are environmental influences for these actions—attributes in a culture” (Brown 1991).

The greatest thing about homo sapiens is their ability to adapt to their environment. These changes may be immediate, as in modern times along industrialization and computers; however, biological adaptions are slower. Homo sapiens evolution has not stood still since Lucy an A. Afarensis was discovered in 1974 by Johanson and Gray (1981). Lucy kind leaped out of the trees to forage for food, started walking upright, grabbed a stick for a tool, and hence the slow biological adaption that grew in you and me, modern Homo sapiens. On one can predict what will be the next biological evolutionary change for humans. We know from the historical evidence that homo sapiens have developed and used tools needed from Lucy to today.