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Book Melville J. Herskovits Theory 1948

Where “enculturation” was coined: Herskovits’ account of how an individual acquires the culture of their society, already distinguishing an early, largely unconscious phase from a later conscious one in which people examine and innovate on what they inherited — the origin of what we call reflexive enculturation. Held here as provenance; the living form of the concept is Enculturated Cognition.

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