Universals of culture

What are the aspects of daily life?

George Murdoch's universals of culture

1. Age Grading
   
2. Community Organization
   
3. Cooking
   
4. Cooperative Labor
   
5. Cosmology
   
6. Courtship
   
7. Dancing
   
8. Decorative Art
   
9. Divination
   
10. Division of labor
    
11. Dream Interpretation
    
12. Education
    
13. Eschatology
    
14. Ethics
    
15. Ethno-botany
    
16. Etiquette
    
17. Faith Healing
    
18. Family Feasting
    
19. Fire Making
    
20. Folklore
    
21. Food Taboos
    
22. Funeral Rites
    
23. Games
    
24. Gestures
    
25. Gift Giving
    
26. Government
    
27. Greetings
    
28. Hairstyles
    
29. Hospitality
    
30. Housing
    
31. Hygiene
    
32. Incest Taboos
    
33. Inheritance Rules
    
34. Joking
    
35. Kin Groups
    
36. Kinship Nomenclature
    
37. Language
    
38. Law
    
39. Luck Superstitions
    
40. Magic
    
41. Marriage
    
42. Mealtimes
    
43. Medicine
    
44. Obstetrics
    
45. Pennal Sanctions
    
46. Personal Names
    
47. Population Policy
    
48. Postnatal Care
    
49. Pregnancy Usages
    
50. Property Rights
    
51. Propitiation of supernatural beings
    
52. Puberty Customs
    
53. Religious Rituals
    
54. Residence Rules
    
55. Sexual Restrictions
    
56. Soul Concepts
    
57. Status Differentiation
    
58. Surgery
    
59. Tool Making
    
60. Trade
    
61. Visiting
    
62. Weather Control
    
63. Weaving
    

Source:
In the bubble
John Thackara
Page 134
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262201577

Ethnosphere

National Geographic explorer Wade Davis argues passionately that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere but also the ethnosphere - the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination. It is humanity's great legacy. It's a symbol of all that we are and all that we can be as an astounding and inquisitive species.