As expected - you chaps and chapesses amaze me! I was a little worried at first that I had opened a can of worms that I would later regret going anywhere near but, as expected, you have done exactly what I wanted you to do.
I am actually an English teacher and so I could very easily have gone to dictionary or to wikipeidia and gotten a definition of Bushcraft, but I think I already know what that is and it's not what I read on this web site and what I enjoy so much about fraternizing with you all. We could play the semantic game and argue about actual definitions forever and it would never get us anywhere.
What I really wanted to know and what you have told me so eloquently is, what does bushcraft (with a small 'b') or whatever you want to call it, mean to YOU. Why do you do it? What is the attraction? Why did I spend Christmas day in the back garden making a hazelwood spoon? Why did I fall asleep on the couch the other night cuddling my new axe? Why did I make hot chocolate with my kids on a Pepsi can stove on the kitchen table right next to a perfectly good stove and kettle? And why is it that Im sure you all do similar unexplainable things?
I can't answer all these questions, but I know there is something about being out of doors, being self reliant, doing things and learning skills that I know my ancestors were doing perhaps thousands of years ago, about knives, tools, 'kit', trees, water, animals, good company (I could go on for ever) that I enjoy and that makes me feel closer to humanity.
All your definitions are personal and valid - no one can argue with them, dispute them or claim they are wrong - at most they can add to or give a different definition.
Please continue adding to this thread and, if you would like to, have a look at my new thread on Bushcraft Chatter - I wish I could put a link in but I don't know how to its called My Space.
And before anyone thinks it would be a good idea to correct my spelling or grammar because I am an English teacher (nay, Head of English, no less) don't bother, its been done a hundred times before and its not clever!