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Benedict devoted her entire career arguing for the anthropological stance of cultural relativity. Cultural relativity was both foundation for anthropological and banner of its academic credibility. Ruth Benedict's lifework was to institute cultural relativity firmly within the profession of anthropology.

The Permanent Culture Now Project is an outlet for the knowledge we have built up from decades of thinking about ways to address the major problems facing ourselves and future generations. We have now reached the point where we believe that there needs to be a move towards a Permanent Culture.

Understand different dimensions of organizational culture. Understand the role of culture strength. Explore subcultures within organizations.

An intresting passage from the articel that reminds me also of the permaculture zones: Some cultures do not perceive time as an exclusively linear phenomenon and their time calendars consist of multiple and simultaneously existing time categories such as 'practical time', 'social time', 'religious time', 'dream time', etc. Many Indigenous people and a number of non- Indigenous cultures do not perceive time as linear and describe it as having a 'circular' or 'cyclic' form. According to such a conceptualisation of time, time is perceived as 'static' and the individual person is 'in the centre of time' (i.e. surrounded by concentric 'time circles'). Life events are placed in time along and across the 'time circles' according to their relative importance to the individual and his or her respective community (i.e. more important events are placed closer to the individual and are perceived as being closer in time; unimportant or irrelevant events occupy peripheral time circles, although some of them could have happened very recently according to linear or 'practical' concept time).

"This is why I argue that holistic education is a vital part of the larger cultural shift taking place in our time. "

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This is similar to WWOOFing yet they have integrated some feedback loops, much like couchsurfing - So you can read peoples reviews of places they worked and you can build a reputation through getting reviews.

This article was referred to me by the author, Naresh. He presented for an online Transition Town call that I participated in (Jan. 24, 2013) The call was titled -"Is Your Transition Initiative (TI) as effective as it can be?" I took the call thanks to Liora's recommendation.

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