Culture From Cranium
Beginning of paper
Throughout the history of anthropology it has been a popular view
that people are largely products of their culture, and not the other way
around. Yet culture is an exclusively human phenomenon. While it is true
that everyone lives within a cultural context, and that context accounts
for varying de ....
Middle of paper
.... one case, which, considering it's sharp
deviation from the cultural context from which it came, was surprisingly
successful. The Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York was a unique
religious communist society in the mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 with high honors. Up to that point he had
been cyni ....
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