Briefly, I would define meta-culture as a systems approach to the problem of human culture, both generally defined as a theoretical and central anthropological concept, and defined in an applied and methodological sense in the various forms that metacultural application might take.
General Tom Thumb. Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 â July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name General Tom Thumb, was a little person who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. 1 Childhood and early life.
Tom Thumb's wedding, 1863. Tom Thumbâs real name was Charles Stratton. He was born a dwarf, or person of short stature (defined medically as someone whose adult height will not exceed more than four feet ten inches tall).