Anthropologist Clifford Geertz Defined Culture as Ideas Based on Cultural

question 27

Multiple Choice

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as ideas based on cultural learning and symbols. For anthropologist Leslie White, culture originated when our ancestors acquired the ability to use symbols. What is a symbol? It is

• A) a distinctive or unique cultural trait, pattern, or integration that can be translated into other cultures.
• B) any element within a culture that distinguishes it from other cultures, precisely because it is difficult to translate.
• C) something verbal or nonverbal, within a particular language or culture, that comes to stand for something else, with no necessary or natural connection to the thing for which it stands.
• D) a linguistic sign within a particular language that comes to stand for something else in another language.
• E) something verbal or nonverbal with a nonarbitrary association with what it symbolizes.

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