etherealmartini's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=etherealmartini2002-01-22T02:12:40Zculture (idea)http://everything2.com:80/user/etherealmartini/writeups/cultureetherealmartinihttp://everything2.com:80/user/etherealmartini2002-01-22T02:12:40Z2002-01-22T02:12:40Z<p>"Culture" as defined by the venerable and pleasant <a href="/title/archaeologist">archaeologist</a>/<a href="/title/anthropologist">anthropologist</a> <a href="/title/Stuart+McRae">Stuart McRae</a>, the instructor of my college class on <a href="/title/anthropology">anthropology</a>:
<p>(1)Culture is an organized <a href="/title/system">system</a> (2)of <a href="/title/learned">learned</a> <a href="/title/behavior">behavior</a> and thought patterns (3)always made manifest by a <a href="/title/group">group</a> (4)making that group <a href="/title/distinctive">distinctive</a> from other groups. (5)It is not <a href="/title/instinctive">instinctive</a>, but rests on a <a href="/title/biological">biological</a> <a href="/title/base">base</a> of:
<p>a. <a href="/title/Binocular">Binocular</a> <a href="/title/stereoscopic">stereoscopic</a> <a href="/title/color">color</a> <a href="/title/vision">vision</a>;
<p>b. <a href="/title/Habitual">Habitual</a> <a href="/title/upright">upright</a> <a href="/title/bipedal">bipedal</a> <a href="/title/locomotion">locomotion</a>;
<p>c. Generalized <a href="/title/forelimb">forelimb</a> with opposable <a href="/title/thumb">thumb</a>; and
<p>d. The <a href="/title/Symbolic">Symbolic</a> <a href="/title/Capacity">Capacity</a> (750-950 cubic centimeters)
<p>(6)Culture is transmitted through language, (7)is cumulative, (8)embraces both artifacts and attitudes, (9)and functions as humankind's chief adaptive mechanism.
<p>The numbers 1-9 mark the 9 main ideas embedded in this concept.