An important part of the common lore of anthropology is that “other people have
culture.” That is, most people fail to recognize or appreciate how much of their lives
are governed by habits, values, and expectations that are largely the product of history and culture. They fail to acknowledge that their own way of doing things is not

The study of cultural transmission has been dominated by the view that it
occurs largely through a process by which adults—especially parents—transfer what they know to children (Chipeniuk 1995:494; King 1994:111; Pelissier

Since Margaret Mead’s field studies in the South Pacific a century ago, there has been the tacit understanding
that as culture varies, so too must the socialization of children to become competent culture users and bearers.
More recently.