Anthropology › Section C · The culture concept › Topic C.2
Culture as shared meaning
A twitch of the eyelid and a deliberate wink can look identical, yet one is biology and the other is a message. Culture lives in that difference: in the meanings people learn and share about what they and others do.
In this topic
- Twitch or wink?
- Tylor's classic definition
- Learned, not inborn
- Two routes of enculturation
- Meaning must be shared
- Symbols and their arbitrary meanings
- Culture shapes biology
- Worked example: thick description
- Worked example: is it culture?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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