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art
Fact

Museums

Institutions that collect, preserve, study and display objects. What they display is a small fraction of what they hold, how they came to hold it is…

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education
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Libraries

Organised collections of recorded knowledge, held for use. Libraries are older than most of the writing systems that survive, their defining problem…

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religion
Fact

Creation Myths

Traditional accounts of how the world and its inhabitants came to exist. Every documented culture has one, they fall into a small number of recurring…

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anthropology
Fact

Board Games

Games played on a marked surface with pieces. They are among the oldest recorded recreational objects, they appear independently across unconnected…

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anthropology
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Clothing

Coverings worn on the body. Clothing is functional, and its functions are only partly physical: almost everywhere it also signals identity, status…

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art
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Dance

Movement of the body performed for expression, ritual or social purpose, generally in relation to rhythm. It is present in every documented human…

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religion
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Religious Festivals

Recurring celebrations marking events in a religious calendar. They structure time, transmit tradition, and are among the most widely observed…

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archaeology
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Rock Art

Images made on rock surfaces, by painting, engraving or carving. It is the largest surviving body of prehistoric art, it is found on every inhabited…

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anthropology
Fact

Taboo

A prohibition so strong that violating it provokes disgust or horror rather than merely disapproval. Taboos are found in every society, they are…

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religion
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Sacred Texts

Writings a religious tradition treats as authoritative. What that authority consists of, how the text was fixed, and how it may be interpreted differ…

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architecture
Fact

Vernacular Architecture

Building made without architects, using local materials and inherited methods, adapted to local climate and way of life. It accounts for the…

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religion
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Monasticism

The practice of withdrawing from ordinary society to live under religious discipline, usually in community and usually under vows. It arose…

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music
Fact

Musical Instruments

Objects made or adapted to produce musical sound. They are among the oldest artefacts of human culture, and the ways they are classified reveal how…

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anthropology
Fact

Rites of Passage

Ceremonies marking a person's movement from one social position to another. They appear in every documented society, and they share a three-part…

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religion
Fact

Pilgrimage

Travel to a place held sacred, undertaken as a religious act. It appears in nearly every major tradition, it moves enormous numbers of people, and it…

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film
Fact

Cinema

The art and industry of moving pictures. It rests on a property of perception, was invented within a few years in several countries at once, and…

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anthropology
Fact

Oral Tradition

The transmission of knowledge, history and literature by speech across generations, without writing. It sustained every human society before writing…

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literature
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The Novel

An extended work of prose fiction. It is among the youngest major literary forms, it became the dominant one within roughly two centuries, and its…

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sport
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Association Football

The most widely played and watched sport in the world, contested by two teams of eleven who may not use their hands. Its modern form was codified in…

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anthropology
Contested

Cultural Relativism

Cultural relativism is the principle that a culture should be understood on its own terms rather than judged against the standards of another. It…

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