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Cultural Invention is any innovation developed by people that is not of a physical construct.〔Saper, Craig J.,(January 1997), ''Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention'' , University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0-8166-2873-4〕 Cultural inventions include sets of behaviour adopted by groups of people. They are perpetuated by being passed on to others within the group or outside it. They are also passed on to future groups and generations.〔 Ostherr, Kirsten; Review of ''Artificial Mythologies. A Guide to Cultural Invention'', Fall 1998 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_199810/ai_n8821092〕 Sources of cultural invention can either come from outside a specific group or from within that group. Allan Hanson, a postmodern anthropologist, believed that the analytical purpose of studying cultural inventions was not to uncover which portions of a culture's belief systems are invented, but rather to study how cultural inventions become accepted as authentic within groups.〔Hanson, Allan 2012 () The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention & its Logic. In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds. Pp 549-562. New York: McGraw-Hill.〕 This notion has been met with criticism from within the anthropological community as well as from outside sources, and has been referred to as both politically revisionist and anti-native.〔Jocelyn Linnekin. American Anthropologist New Series, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 446-449〕 The fear is that viewing cultural invention as a process which leads to something authentic and widely accepted may undermine indigenous people's traditions in addition to questioning the authority they have over their own culture.〔Jocelyn Linnekin. American Anthropologist New Series, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 446-449〕 ==Examples== Examples of areas where cultural inventions may take place include: * Languages * Legal systems * Political systems * Scientific method * Sports * Social institutions * Belief systems 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cultural invention」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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