1. Culture
The classic definition of culture was provided by the 19th-century English anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in the first paragraph of his Primitive Culture (1871): Culture . . . is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. ... The mother-in-law taboo is a complex of concepts, attitudes, and acts. ... Analyzing "the complex whole" into component parts or categories facilitates an understanding of human culture. ...
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