Which chapter in the introduction to anthropology is the small tradition and the large tradition?

Major and Minor Traditions are classic anthropological concepts, first proposed by Redfield in Peasant Society and Culture Within a given civilization, there are always two traditions; a major tradition created by a small number of good thinkers, and a minor tradition created by a large number of essentially unthinking people. The great tradition is nurtured in the schoolhouse or the temple, while the small tradition springs up spontaneously, and then it struggles on in the lives of the ignorant masses of the rural communities in which it is born.

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When I read Wang Jichao's "Anthropological Research Methods" on August 3, I found this passage in Chapter 2, "Research Orientation and Theoretical Construction," in the first section, under "Big Traditions and Small Traditions" by Redfield. According to Redfield, the various elements of small traditions are often explained by large traditions, large traditions create culture, small traditions simply accept it.

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