Objects that are made and used by humans in group contexts are called material culture.
Museums are filled with material culture.
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In Ojibwa culture, young people are encouraged to fast for up to a week in order to bring on special visionary dreams
This is very interesting, dreams mean so much more in other cultures.
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Living in that house, you would have wordlessly absorbed a set of assumptions about family, gender, work, leisure, hospitality, and property. And all of it would seem quite natural to you.
The way people are raised can affect how they see the world.
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Humans are not born knowing how to wink, and it takes some practice to learn how to do it.
Winking is so similar to blinking, its just using one eye, so its strange that we have to learn how to do it while we are born knowing how to blink.
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“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”
This is a good way to view culture.
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