Firsthand place experience generalizes into type knowledge shared with others

Evidence

These “ways of knowing” are massively interrelated. Thus, having personally experienced a particular locale, the individual may then generalize to other places of that “type.” So too he or she may use this experience to instruct others, either as to place “type” or as to the specific locale which the other has never visited. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1167

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Passive observation of locals transfers little skill without active guided practice — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 121