Culture ethnographically means a complex whole which includes belief,values,art,morals,behaviour,ideals ,attitudes,customs,laws and other capabilities and habits shared by the members of the group.
There is an alternate view which believes that description of culture should not be based on a set of manners or traits but culture should be abstracted from observed behaviour.Culture is not descriptive term but an analytical one.Culture is composed of interrelated and pattered traditions which are transmitted by man linguistic and non-linguistic capacity.
the two components of culture are cultural anthropology and physical anthropology.There is well defined separation between these two fields of enquiry but comparatively recent developments have brought them together in certain areas.Cultural anthropology can further be divided into ethnography and ethnology.While the former means the study and recording of specific cultures the latter is taken to mean comparative and historical analysis of cultures.
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