Cultural Artifact

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Cultural Artifact

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Cultural Artifact

Artifact and Values and beliefs of the Culture

In anthropological perspective, Culture is defined as attitudes, practices, values, norms of any particular society where definition of culture is different in education perspective. According to this perspective culture is the intellectual and artistic attitudes, practices and values of a given society. Cultural factors are important to understand the living style and possible changes in the way of living of people. Artifact signifies the development of civilization of manmade things and defines the cultural practices of people in a particular era. Artifact should be freely used. In today's world, cultural Artifact exists in a form of pre-packaged product marketed for profits. The dynamic environment of today's world is bringing people from different places closer to each other, transfusing the life style, values, traditions and values of each other. Artifact is defined as an intellectual values, and artistic values of given society, it refers to the objects like movies, culinary art, and fashion industry. One of the important factors of Artifact is that it transcends the physical boundaries of era and time, and to certain extent reflects the mentality of people at a particular point of time (Gingell, 1994).

Cultural Roots ArtIfact

Blue jeans has gained a world wide popularity and associated with and is considered as American icon. The history of jeans is not associated with high or upper class of the society; rather it symbolizes its beginning within the working class. It was considered as unsavoury by the religious and rebellious statement about “western debauchery”. According to different researches in the past no other garment has served as an example of status of distinctiveness as blue jeans in the history of fashion. It has become the most common and widely used fashion across the globe over the number of years. ...