ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clifford Geertz, Marvin Harris, Edward Burnett Tylor
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No definite, agreed upon definition of culture. Culture, or civilization is 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 . That complex whole has been the most durable feature of his definition. A culture is the total socially acquired life-way or life- style of a group of people. It consists of the patterned repetitive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, that are characteristic of the members of a particular society or segment of society . Believes that culture consists of symbols, motivations, moods, and thoughts and does not include behaviour as a part of culture. Culture is not the same as nature. A good way to see how culture diverges from and shapes nature is to consider basic natural demands of life within different cultural contexts.
