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.
The miller rubs the grain between his thumb and forefinger. After years of doing this the miller's thumb changes shape and becomes broad and flattened. This is known as a miller's thumb. Sayings such as worth a millerËs thumb and an honest miller hath a golden thumb refers to the profit the miller makes as a result of this skill. The shape of a miller's thumb is said to have the appearance of the head of a fish.