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The Concept of Culture - A History and Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Concept of Culture - A History and Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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While the term 'culture' has come to be very widely used in both
popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and
the differences among these have not been given sufficient
attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some
of the problems associated with them, as well as examining the role
that values should play in cultural analysis. The development of
four, very different, conceptions of culture is traced from the
nineteenth century onwards: a notion of aesthetic cultivation
associated with Matthew Arnold; the evolutionary view of culture
characteristic of nineteenth-century anthropology; the idea of
diverse cultures characteristic of twentieth and twenty-first
century anthropology; and a conception of culture as a process of
situated meaning-making - found today across anthropology,
sociology, and cultural studies. These conceptions of culture are
interrogated, and a reformulation of the concept is sketched. This
book will be of interest to students and scholars across a variety
of fields, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and
education.
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