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Anthropology · Chapter 1

What Counts as Culture?

In everyday speech "culture" means opera and museums. In anthropology it means something far larger — and something with edges. Sort eleven things into culture or not culture, and the four-part definition will assemble itself: culture is learned, shared, symbolic, and integrated.

The four-part test

Answer to run the test— / 4
Tap a criterion to study it
Culture or not culture?eleven things to sort