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culture

(Encyclopedia) culture, in anthropology, the integrated system of socially acquired values, beliefs, and rules of conduct which delimit the range of accepted behaviors in any given society. Cultural…

Society, Culture, and Scholarship

Society, Culture, and Scholarship Confucius Biographies by CategoryArts and Entertainment Business, Philanthropy, and Labor Politics and Government Science and…

Clovis culture

(Encyclopedia) Clovis culture, a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.Mex. The artifacts,…

Anasazi culture

(Encyclopedia) Anasazi cultureAnasazi cultureänˌəsäˈzē [key]: see Basket Makers; cliff dwellers; Pueblo.

Folsom culture

(Encyclopedia) Folsom cultureFolsom culturefŏlˈsəm, fŭlˈ– [key], a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated (1926) near Folsom, E…

tissue culture

(Encyclopedia) tissue culture, the propagation of plants through the placement of small amounts of undifferentiated tissue or single cells in an artificial environment. The tissue is placed in a…

Villanovan culture

(Encyclopedia) Villanovan culture, the culture of a people of N Italy in the early Iron Age (c.1100–700 b.c.). The term is derived from the town of Villanova, near Bologna, where the first…

DK Society & Beliefs: Culture

DO ALL MEMBERS OF A SOCIETY SHARE ONE CULTURE? IS THERE A GLOBAL CULTURE? DO CULTURES CHANGE? HOW DO WE LEARN A CULTURE? TRADITIONLANGUAGESUBCULTUREFIND OUT MORECulture is made up of all the…