Culture: The Anthropologists' Account

by Adam Kuper

Book Overview

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 tutelage of Talcott Parsons. What follows is the story of how the idea fared within American anthropology, the discipline that took on culture as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674004175
• ISBN13: 9780674004177
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"