culture, anth, philosophy and science

“In Zapotec, as in English, there are no grammatical genders. There is only one form for all people. Muxes have never been forced to wonder: are they more man or woman?” Avendaño explained.

The first of these is the one we’re most familiar with: authority. How much attention do we pay to the rank or status of a person, and how much respect and deference do we pay to that status? On this dimension, the Japanese are clearly more hierarchical than Americans. The positions are reversed, however, when we look at the second dimension:

Once we understand our own culture, we can then begin to analyze, and finally understand other cultures, and the individuals within them.

Existen todavía algunas comunidades centradas en las mujeres en Asia. Las tribus garo y khasi, de alrededor de un millón de personas, son sociedades matrilineales, principalmente en la India, que están orientadas a las mujeres, pero no dominadas por ellas. En una familia khasi, la hija menor hereda la propiedad ancestral; en la comunidad garo, las

Gender is a more complicated topic than biological sex, because gender, according to the World Health Organization, “refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed” (20–22). Due to being social constructs, the various characteristics and genders can change over time, and/or across various cultures (21, 22)

"If language gives us the core representations that we use for reasoning, then … destroying the language system should lead to problems in thinking as well, and it really doesn't."

Pointing creates an invisible line between a part of your body and the thing you’re pointing at. Humans are really good at producing and understanding pointing, and it seems to be something that helps babies learn to talk, but only a few animals manage it: domestic dogs can follow a point but wolves can’t. (Cats? Look, who knows.) There are lots of

I ntentar dilucidar si una manifestación cultural es de mayor calidad que la otra por su origen mismo es un debate tan lleno de matices como infructuoso .

A technology can change a society or culture, then culture eventually figures out how to change the technology. That’s when a technology becomes invisible, because we use it without thinking about it. It is socioculturally accepted. This is also when technologies become more interesting.