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Working Definition:
A cultural practice is the habitual performance of an action that identifies the practitioner with a larger group of people who share the values attributed to the performance as an emotional bond that unites them.
Disciplinary Definitions:
Raymond Williams identifies three common meanings of the term, "culture": 1 "a general process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development"; 2 "a particular way of life, whether of a people, a period or a group"; 3 "the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity" --the "most widespread use" (from Raymond Williams's Keywords, 80).
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June 13, 2007
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