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Re: definitions of culture
Jeannine Jarvis (jeannine@CAS.NWU.EDU)
Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:22:41 -0500
Anita G Cohen-Williams wrote:
>I think that Krober's definition is still the best, "shared learned
>behavior". The definition using the idea of human processes obstructing
>nature doesn't work when one looks at stone tool usage. There is an
>example of people using nature to produce needed goods.
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True, "obstruct" doesn't apply in that case. But Warren Sproule's definition
also includes the transformation of nature in the definition of culture,
which certainly *would* apply to the use of stone tools.
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Jeannine Jarvis
Northwestern Univ.
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