Representing Cultural Knowledge in Anthropology

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The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast two ways of representing cultural knowledge. It does so by providing background, describing two systems and providing conclusions.

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"Cultures are considered to be in the heads of culture members and the anthropologists who analyze them. Since anthropology is considered to be a science dealing with the description of human cultures, it is important to have accurate and reliable ways of representing and transferring cultural knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast two different ways of representing cultural knowledge in anthropology. It will do so by providing background information detailing the basic needs of a representational system describing..."

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