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Word for culture that develops around a specific skill or task that one does

English Language & Usage Asked by Ar1Bis on October 1, 2021

Is there a word for ideas and rituals that have developed around a skill or a task that one does?

For example, consider coffee-making or metalworking. Many people do these things as hobbies and there is a "culture" that has developed around them, where people exchange ideas of doing these things in a better or different way. For coffee-making, there is "coffee culture" and metalworking is just "metalworking".

What I am looking for is another word that could be used in the same sense as ‘culture’ in "coffee culture".

One Answer

One possibility is lore, used to mean

the body of traditional facts, anecdotes, or beliefs relating to some particular subject; chiefly with attributive noun, as animal lore, bird lore, fairy lore, plant lore (OED, lore n. 1, sense 5)

Its historical association with religious doctrine helps it encompass both knowledge and practice.

Correct answer by max norton on October 1, 2021

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