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culture area

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noun

Anthropology.
  1. a region having a distinct pattern of culture.


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From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

It is possible to speak of typical Californian Indians and to recognise a typical Californian culture area.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

In each geographic province, which also constitutes a culture area, the style of housing is different according to natural resources and climatic conditions.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg

The suk′-lâng is made in nearly all pueblos in the Bontoc culture area.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks

At Sagada there is a ledge of exposed and crumbling rock from which most of the men of the western part of the Bontoc culture area obtain their “flint.”

From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks

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