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Essay Archive - Culture from Cranium
Culture from Cranium
Throughout the history of anthropology it has been a popular view
that people are largely products of their culture, and not the other way
around. Yet culture is an exclusively human phenomenon. While it is true
that everyone lives within a cultural context, and that context accounts
for varying degrees of who that person is (indeed, there are those who say
that certain people are wholly products of their culture), the reverse is
also true. Each person, then, has some degree of impact on the culture
around him or her. The current culture of this country, for example, was
hugely shaped by the intellect....
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