{"id":2177,"date":"2016-12-11T03:05:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T03:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/11\/cultural-artifact\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:39:10","slug":"cultural-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2016\/12\/11\/cultural-artifact\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;cultural artifact&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>cultural artifact<\/strong> is any object made by a human which gives us information about the creator or the user. Virtually, everything we use each day is a cultural artifact. There are both ancient-day and present-day artifacts. Interestingly, we use tools (artifacts) to create products (more artifacts). Archaeologists dig up ancient artifacts but, our houses are full of them. Pick up a dish, a toy, a pen and think about the importance it may play in the expression of what you find meaningful. World travelers can&#8217;t help themselves; the souvenirs they bring back in their suitcases represent the people on some level, either superficially or sentimentally.<\/p>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/category\/definitions\/\">DEFINITIONS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go to the next definition <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2016\/09\/30\/the-stages-of-acculturation\/\">Stages of Acculturation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural artifact is any object made by a human which gives us information about the creator or the user. Virtually, everything we use each day is a cultural artifact. There are both ancient-day and present-day artifacts. Interestingly, we use tools (artifacts) to create products (more artifacts). Archaeologists dig up ancient artifacts but, our houses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}