| Description |
xv, 299 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Culture Wars -- Pt. 1. Genealogies. 1. Culture and Civilization: French, German, and English Intellectuals, 1930-1958. 2. The Social Science Account: Talcott Parsons and the American Anthropologists -- Pt. 2. 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 |
| Summary |
Culture clarifies a crucial chapter in recent intellectual history. Adam Kuper makes the case against cultural determinism and argues that political and economic forces, social institutions, and biological processes must take their place in any complete explanation of why people think and behave as they do |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
98046126 |
| ISBN |
0674179579 |
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