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.
When people think of Tom Thumb they may recall the English folklore character, or the children's nursery rhyme, but few, it seems, think of the real life Tom Thumb, a performer who shot to fame in the 1840s, watched by 50 million people worldwide, and a firm favourite with both Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln.