Culture, he said, is...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....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.
An unceasing turnover of repertory provided a new arena for the expansion of knowledge, belief and debate, and the arena could be a national one, as the playing companies took this repertory around the country.
It is to Tylor more than anyone else that we owe the idea that anthropology is the study of something called "culture", which he defined as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society".
The earliest and most quoted definition is the one formulated in 1871 by Edward Burnett Tylor: Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is 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.
In the 1950s, Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, two of the most eminent anthropologists of the period, undertook a major effort to assay the meaning of "culture" in anthropology; they concluded that it was best understood as the knowledge, belief, and habits embodied in symbolic discourse.
Many, if not all, of these disputes may be seen as concerned in one way or another with the relations between, on the one hand, human beings as thinkers and subjects of experience and, on the other hand, the objects of their knowledge, belief, and experience.
Consider their own knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about nuclear power.
Emotions involve knowledge, beliefs, opinions, and desires about the world.
Bias, a third memory sin, occurs when current knowledge, beliefs or feelings distort the past.
Safety knowledge, beliefs, and practices were compared at follow-up.
Students who have simple knowledge beliefs view knowledge as simple rather than contextual and contingent.
