Cultural invention
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Cultural invention describes any innovation that is new and found to be useful to a group of people but which does not exist as a physical object. Rather it is a set of behaviours adopted by a group of people because of their usefulness to them and which is perpetuated by being passed on to others in the group, outside the group and to future generations.
Examples are:-
- Languages
- Legal systems
- Political systems
- The scientific method
- Sports
References
- Saper, Craig J.,(January 1997), Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention , University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0816628734
- Ostherr, Kirsten; Review of Artificial Mythologies. A Guide to Cultural Invention, Fall 1998 [link]
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