Description
Book SynopsisCulture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts: to describe the behaviour of corporations or criminals; to provide personal and national identity; it even gives its name to a Department of State.
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The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Table of ContentsForeword.
1. Birth of a concept.
2. Culture and Politics.
3. Culture and the Science of Humanity.
4. Culture and Redemption: Literature and Judgement.
5. The Social Production of Culture.
6. Culture and Postmodernism: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
