Editing Cultural anthropology (section)

===The concept of culture===
One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term "[[culture]]" came from Sir [[Edward Burnett Tylor|Edward Tylor]]: "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."<ref>[[Edward Burnett Tylor|Tylor, Edward]]. 1920 [1871]. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=VxZMk2PEUsoC&pg=PP1 Primitive Culture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215161535/https://books.google.com/books?id=VxZMk2PEUsoC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1 |date=2022-12-15 }}''. Vol 1. New York: J.P. Putnam's Sons.</ref> The term "civilization" later gave way to definitions given by [[V. Gordon Childe]], with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.<ref name="Magolda 24–46">{{Cite journal|last=Magolda|first=Peter M.|date=March 2000|title=The Campus Tour: Ritual and Community in Higher Education|journal=Anthropology & Education Quarterly|volume=31|pages=24–46|doi=10.1525/aeq.2000.31.1.24}}</ref>

Kay Milton, former Director of Anthropology Research at Queen's University Belfast, distinguishes between general and specific cultures. This means culture can be something applied to all human beings or it can be specific to a certain group of people such as African American culture or Irish American culture. Specific cultures are structured systems which means they are organized very specifically and adding or taking away any element from that system may disrupt it.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Milton|first=Kay|title=Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the role of anthropology in environmental discourse|publisher=Routledge Press|year=1996|isbn=0415115302|location=New York|pages=8–37|language=English}}</ref>