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 is a semi-dry to dry sausage that is cooked after fermentation and drying. Vivian told me, âYou boil the tom thumb, slice it, pan fry it, and then use the liquid left over from cooking the tom thumb to cook your greens. And that would typically be cabbageâat least with my family it was cabbage.