Summary
Enculturation is the lifelong process through which people learn their culture: its norms, its worldviews, its ways of doing things. The term comes from anthropology. Melville Herskovits introduced it in ‘Man and His Works’ (1948), crediting E. A. Haggard with the word, for a learning that “can be said to end only with his death”. Early in life it is largely unconscious conditioning; later, he wrote, people can accept or reject what they meet.
In Getting Deep we use it broadly. Culture is learned through explicit teaching, through watching and imitating others, through rituals and built surroundings, and through art and media – and people remake it as they go.
Rationale
The term Part 2 is built around. Its four zones – ‘Told’, ‘Breathed’, ‘Built’, ‘Lived’ – simplify the many ways a culture gets learned.