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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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Begin by selecting one culture area in which you are interested.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The only indispensable thing is that all these should be kept within a given culture area.

From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Austin, Mary Hunter

In Banawi, in the Quiangan culture area, a district having no public buildings, one can scarcely find a trace of skin eruption.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest

Throughout the Bontoc culture area Lu-ma′-wĭg is the one and only god of the people.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest

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 Jenks, Albert Ernest

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