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By Claudia Strauss

"Culture" and "meaning" are valuable to anthropology, yet anthropologists don't agree on what they're. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn suggest a brand new concept of cultural that means, one who supplies precedence to the best way people's reports are internalized. Drawing on "connectionist" or "neural community" versions in addition to different mental theories, they argue that cultural meanings should not fastened or restricted to static teams, yet neither are they regularly revised or contested. Their procedure is illustrated by way of unique study on understandings of marriage and concepts of luck within the usa.

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