Culture : : The Anthropologists’ Account / / Adam Kuper.
Suddenly culture seems to explain everything, from civil wars to financial crises and divorce rates. But when we speak of culture, what, precisely, do we mean?Adam Kuper pursues the concept of culture from the early twentieth century debates to its adoption by American social science under the tutel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction: Culture Wars
- Part One: Genealogies
- 1 Culture and Civilization: French, German, and English Intellectuals, 1930–1958
- 2 The Social Science Account: Talcott Parsons and the American Anthropologists
- Part Two: Experiments
- 3 Clifford Geertz: Culture as Religion and as Grand Opera
- 4 David Schneider: Biology as Culture
- 5 Marshall Sahlins: History as Culture
- 6 Brave New World
- 7 Culture, Difference, Identity
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX