Tuesday, October 16, 2007

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

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