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Re: [apeman_e] need your help - want to photograph bouldering culture around the world:
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yanqui
May 6, 2009, 1:59 PM
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apeman_e wrote: What is bouldering culture?
"Culture" is a word that can be traced back to the Latin "cultura" which stems from the verb "colere", a verb that means "to cultivate".
According to the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary the word "culture" can mean:
-- the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a group;
-- the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a group;
-- characteristic features of everyday existence shared by people in a place or time;
Thus, in order for "bouldering culture" to exist there must be an integrated group of practicioners with some shared set of traits. Employing the wonderful language proposed by Dingus Milktoast, what we look for to find "bouldering culture" is a tribe: a tribe of people who boulder.
I can assure you, that far away, in the secluded boulder fields of Argentina, such tribes do exist.
(This post was edited by yanqui on May 6, 2009, 2:08 PM)
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