Discuss the anthropological view that culture is a resource for development.
In my personal opinion culture is the way things are done and it refers to people’s learned and shared behaviours and believes and Humans in turn use culture to adapt and transform the world they live in. Therefore, in anthropological view, culture or Cultural Anthropology is basically studies the different cultures of humans and how those cultures are shaped or shape the world around them. The goal of a cultural anthropologist is to learn about another culture by collecting data about how the world economy and political practices effect the new culture that is being studied.
One of example of culture would be the Ashanti culture. Although, Ashanti is an African tribe located in central Ghana. In the Ashanti culture, the family and the mother’s clan are most important. A child is said to inherit the father’s soul or spirit which is called (ntoro) and from the mother, a child receives flesh and blood (mogya). This relates them more closely to the mother’s clan. The Ashanti live in an extended family. The family lives in various homes or huts that are set up around a courtyard. The head of the household is usually the oldest brother that lives there. He is chosen by the elders. He is called either Father or Housefather and everyone in the household obeys him. On the other hand, the anthropological study of culture can be organized along two persistent and basic themes: Diversity and Change. An individual's upbringing and environment or culture is what makes them diverse from other cultures. It is the differences between all cultures and sub-cultures of the world’s regions. People's need to adapt and transform to physical, biological and cultural forces to survive. On the other hand, Change culture generally changes for one of two reasons: selective transmission or to meet changing needs.