What is the definition of a Cultural Myth?
Cultural mythology is the set of stories and beliefs that characterizes a culture. To anthropologists, one of the biggest questions regarding cultural mythology is whether it makes culture or whether culture makes it. That is, does culture make a person who he or she is or is culture the mass product of the beliefs of a group of individuals? Cognitive anthropological theory maintains that it is a little of both. Here…. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Culture… quoting from Webster’s Dictionary, they define it as…. “A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.” Hope this helps!
