A manuscript culture is a culture that depends on hand-written manuscripts to store and disseminate information. It is a stage that most developed cultures...

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically...

Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast...

regarded as a way of describing four epochs of history: Oral tribe culture Manuscript culture Gutenberg galaxy Electronic age For the break between the time...

Culture (/ˈkʌltʃər/ KUL-chər) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge...

A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual...

An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often...

Timbuktu Manuscripts (or Tombouctou Manuscripts) is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved...

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as 'Voynichese.' The vellum on which it is written has been...

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output...

emergence of scribal culture or manuscript culture. Scholars disagree over when scribal culture developed. Walter Ong argues that scribal culture cannot exist...

A horse culture is a tribal group or community whose day-to-day life revolves around the herding and breeding of horses. Beginning with the domestication...

Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation...

Culture change is a term used in public policy making that emphasizes the influence of cultural capital on individual and community behavior. It has been...

Individualistic cultures are characterized by individualism, which is the prioritization or emphasis of the individual over the entire group. In individualistic...

Islamic culture or Muslim culture refers to the historic cultural practices that developed among the various peoples living in the Muslim world. These...

Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society. The term is primarily used in archaeology and...

society considers representative of their culture. In popular usage, the term high culture identifies the culture either of the upper class (an aristocracy)...

Youth culture refers to the societal norms of children, adolescents, and young adults. Specifically, it comprises the processes and symbolic systems that...

anthropology, high-context culture and low-context culture are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important...

Testament Latin manuscripts Manuscript culture List of codices Book of Job in illuminated manuscripts Libraries Australia - catalog of manuscripts in 800+ Australian...

Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social...

cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture). Such activities...

cross, Odin's cross or Woden's cross. Although it has been used in various cultures for different purposes, it came to represent the compass points, Earth...

Drinking culture is the set of traditions and social behaviours that surround the consumption of alcoholic beverages as a recreational drug and social...

Alternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more...

Popular culture studies is the study of popular culture from a critical theory perspective combining communication studies and cultural studies. The first...

In political science, a culture war is a type of cultural conflict between different social groups who struggle to politically impose their own ideology...

Drug cultures are examples of countercultures that are primarily defined by spiritual, medical, and recreational drug use. They may be focused on a single...

the term low culture identifies the forms of popular culture that have mass appeal, often broadly appealing to the middle or lower cultures of any given...