One idea of culture (mine) is the following: Culture is an abstract network shaping and connecting social roles, hierarchically structured knowledge domains and ranked values. Culture is dynamic, shifting, reinterpreted moment by moment. The roles, knowledge and values of culture are only found in the bodies (the brain is part of the body) and behaviors of its members.1 Culture is abstract because it cannot be touched, or seen, or smelled – it is not directly observable. However, the products of culture, such as art, libraries, political roles, food, literature, science, religion, style,
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