Are Hard To See From Inside

Become More Real Through Repetition

Become Real Through Repetition

Become Stronger When Shared

Create Context

Create Dispersion

Echo

Escape

Have To Be Carried Across

Ignore Boundaries

Make Consequences Invisible

Need Interpretation To Exist

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Ownership

Persist Through Change

Reflect

Remain

Resist Compression

Resist Ownership

Reward Circulation

Survive Their Container

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is 'superorganic,' an entity that exist apart from and independent of individuals. It is not inherited, only transmitted socially. In other words, culture causes culture.

Perhaps Kroeber's most controversial idea concerned his concept of culture generally. In a 1917 article published in American Anthropologist he described culture as 'superorganic,' an entity that existed apart from and independent of individuals. It was not inherited, only transmitted socially. In other words, culture caused culture.

is (insofar as it is the intention to teach and learn) servitude from which the tonality and intensity of the soul must break free.

Culture (the sum total of knowledge) that is, the intention to teach and learn is the obverse of the soul's tonality, its intensity, which can be neither taught nor learnt. The more culture accumulates, however, the more it becomes enslaved to itself and the more its obverse, the mute intensity of the tonality of the soul, grows. The soul's tonality catches the teacher by surprise, and finally breaks with the intention to teach: the servitude of culture thus breaks forth at the moment it collides with the muteness of Nietzsche's discourse. (Klossowski 'viscous' ix)

a behavioral map, sieve, or matrix. (Kluckhohn, Clyde. Mirror for Man)

is a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. Johan Huizinga

is a complex external symbol structure [. . . ] that is able to bring about roughly the same type to orientation in any or all of the actors who happen to orient to it.

Culture has been distinguished from the other elements of action by the fact that it is intrinsically transmissible from one action system to another [by learning and by diffusion]. (p. 159)[. . . ]A complex external symbol structure [. . . ] can bring about roughly the same type to orientation in any or all of the actors who happen to orient to it. (p. 160)The consistency of pattern of such a system will exist to the extent to which the same combination of value judgments [. . . ] runs consistently throught the actors' responses to different situations. (p. 172)(from Toward a general theory of action. New York: Harper and Row. 1951.)

is a concept around which the entire discipline of anthropology arose, and whose domination that discipline has been increasingly concerned to limit, specify, focus and contain.

[c]ulture is a concept around which the entire discipline of anthropology arose, and whose domination that discipline has been increasingly concerned to limit, specify, focus and contain (Geertz, 4).

is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

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