Identity: Political Not Cultural
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In my dictionary I find as a definition for "culture": "The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought." Like most dictionary definitions, this one could be improved. But it surely picks out a familiar constellation of ideas. In fact, it captures the sense in which anthropologists commonly use the term nowadays. The cultures of the Ashanti or the Zuni comprise, for the anthropologist, every object they make-material culture-and everything they think and do.
First Page
34
Source Publication
Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies
Source Editors/Authors
Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
Routledge
Recommended Citation
Kwame A. Appiah,
Identity: Political Not Cultural,
Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies
34
(1996).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/167
