A forum to foster dialogue across disciplines on issues related to culture and development.and their implications for public action. Based on the book:

Culture and Public Action, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors), Stanford University Press, 2004. The South Asia Edition has been published by Permanent Black.

 

Contributors (In Order of Chapters in the Book):

Amartya Sen, Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, Marco Verweij, Timur Kuran, Arjo Klamer, Lourdes Arizpe, Sabina Alkire, Anita Abraham, Jean-Phiippe Platteau, Monica Das Gupta, Carol Jenkins, Fernando Calderon, Alicia Szmuckler, Simon Harragin, Shelton Davis,Vijayendra Rao, Michael Walton

 
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The Culture Concept in Anthropology

Anthropologists have never agreed on the definition for their defining disciplinary concept: "culture". Below is a historical sketch that attempts to trace some of the different theoretical paradigms informing various anthropological concepts of culture.

In this section:

Social Evolutionism

Diffusionism

Historical Particularism

Culture and Personality

Functionalism and British Social Anthropology

The Manchester School

Ecological Materialism

Symbolic Anthropology

Marxist Anthropology

Structuralism

Postmodernism

Transnationalism and Globalization

References

 
 

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