The author of "Queer Customs" claims that neither cultural determinism nor biological determinism can exist without the other. There is a solid and clear connection between the two. She describes an example where guests in a woman's home in Arizona were fed mystery meat. When they were told later that they had eaten fresh rattlesnake meat, they would vomit. The vomiting, although it is a biological process, was caused by the guests' cultural upbringing. Culture can be restricted by one's biology, but it can also cause different biological processes.
In “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari”, Lee explains the !Kung Bushmen Christmas tradition. Each year on Christmas, an ox is slaughtered for everyone in the village. As a thank you for the time he spent there, as well as the desire to take part in their tradition and culture as a hunter-gather community, he decided that he would find and slaughter an ox for them for Christmas.
We learn culture at a very young age. We are taught the way things are and how to behave in certain