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Understandings:

and cultural organization, 325 n;

descriptive and evaluative defined, 275 ;

effects of different types of, 275 -276;

expectations and, 307 ;

many are implicit, 328 n;

need not agree with or share, to be judged by, 292 , 303 ;

not only guide for behavior, 310 ;

shared are culture's elements, 5 -6, 269 ;

similarity to orientations, 283 ;

three types are basis of statuses and social structure, 273 -274.

See also Cultural distribution; Status

Unshared culture:

connected to conformity, 278 ;

cultural diversity promoted by shame, 207 ;

difficulties posed by for most anthropological explanations, 268 -269;

effects on nonsharing group members, 269 , 271 -273, 275 -283;

functions of, 272 ;

general expectations and, 18 -20;

influence on the nonsharers, 228 -241;

between medical experts and patients, 224 -229, 237 , 241 ;

not a bar to accepting advice, 234 -235;

not indicative of Swahil decline, 269 ;

predictability and, 143 ;

shame and role in lessening effects of, 207 -208;

social structure and, 21 -22, 265 -267.

See also Cultural sharing; Interaction; Tokens

Utenzi. See Poetry


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