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is the set of operations which render complex human phenomena communicable.

Culture' pertains to operations which render complex human phenomena communicable. . . What we might call the experience-as-conceived (or let us simply say the communication) of those phenomena is achieved by some sort of selection (implies reduction) and emphasis of some of the elements from each of the orders adduced. And these elements are themselves connected in a more or less traditional arrangement -- i.e. in an arrangement which implicitly refers back to tradition either by being like it or unlike it. Most generally, some sort of selection of elements from posited orders which are evidenced in the phenomena, communicates the phenomena (or in effect is the communication of the phenomena) in complex conscious and/or unconscious ways to persons enacting the phenomena themselves. . . In sum, communicable experience is achieved through the process of selecting and inter-retaling sets of elements from various orders of phenomena. . . This process we might call simply the operation of the analytically posited orders. (p. 227)

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