ABSTRACT

An observer went to the Fox. As a result some artifacts exist, descriptions of the Fox shaped by the devices at hand. We turn now to watch those devices behaving, to see them doing the work they can do. The culture of a small community is the code the people carry in common in their heads as to (among other things) how men of the community ought to behave. Culture is code. The devices of social structure and world view attend, not behavior directly, but shared codes about behavior—in a word, aspects of culture. Description of the There description moves first from one event, a clan feast; any event could be chosen, arbitrarily. Descriptions guided by the notions of social structure and of world view start from opposite corners, as it were, of a peo-ple's culture, and they seem to run separate courses.