enculturationn.

1948 M. J. Herskovits Man & his Works iii. 39 The aspects of the learning experience which mark off man from other creatures, and by means of which..he achieves competence in his culture, may be called enculturation. This is in essence a process of conscious or unconscious conditioning, exercised within the limits sanctioned by a given body of custom.

1955 Yearbk. Anthropol. I. 315/1 The training of students involves the usual problems of enculturation.

1968 Indian Music Jrnl. 5 24 Normally, education is part of the process called by some anthropologists ‘enculturation’ (the culture inculcating its own values).

1968 N. O. Lurie in J. A. Clifton Introd. Cultural Anthropol. 297/1 Our biological evolutionary heritage means that we must learn our cultural adaptations for survival, and for this vital technique to work, a culture must be firmly implanted in the members of the society which shares it. The term ‘enculturation’ is sometimes used to describe this process.