Culture, Mind and Technology: Making a Difference

While culture is a concept which has a long history in anthropology, it has nevertheless been described in many diverse ways. Margaret Mead in her comprehensive book Cultural Patterns and Technical Change (1954: 12) observes that: A culture is a systematic and integrated whole... culture is an abstraction from the body of learned behaviour which a group of people who share the same traditions transmit entire to their children, and, in part to adult immigrants who become members of the society. It covers not only the arts and sciences, religions and philosophies, to which the word ‘culture’ has historically applied, but also to the system of technology, the political practices, the small intimate habits of daily life.

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