ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Haile Selassie, Cultural Hegemony, Dreadlocks
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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) That plan less hodgepodge, that thing of shreds and patches (lowie 1947) A part of the distinctive means by which a local population maintains itself in an ecosystem and by which a regional population maintains and coordinates its groups and distributes them over the available land (rappaport 1968) An historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life (geertz 1973) : a shared way of life that includes the material products and nonmaterial products (values, beliefs, and norms) that are transmitted within a particular society from generation to generation: society culture. : a group of people who reside within a specific territory and share a common.