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Speaking of Culture
This text is a collection of instructor-authored background readings intended to accompany other activities, discussions, experiences, projects, and readings for courses in Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Its main purpose is to define culture and other concepts often associated with it.
- Author
- Nolan Weil
- Publisher
- Utah State University
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 68 sections
- 01: What is Culture
- 1.01: Culture simply defined
- 1.02: Brief history of a concept
- 1.03: Franz Boas and the birth of American anthropology
- 1.04: Later 20th and 21st century developments
- 1.05: Final reflections
- 02: The Human Family
- 2.01: Origins and Diversity of Humanity
- 2.02: Where did we all come from
- 2.03: The Multiregional Origin Hypothesis
- 2.04: The Recent African Origin Hypothesis
- 2.05: But why do we all look so different on the surface
- 2.06: Race is not a biologically meaningful concept
- 2.07: Final Reflection
- 03: Origins of Culture
- 3.01: Culture as a product of human activity
- 3.02: Paleolithic material culture
- 3.03: Stone tools
- 3.04: Carved Figurines
- 3.05: Painting
- 3.06: Origins of mythology
- 3.07: Stories of creation A sampling
- 3.08: Similarities among creation stories
- 3.09: Accounting for common motifs
- 3.10: The Laurasian Novel
- 3.11: Final Reflection
- 3.12: Video Clips and Documentaries
- 3.13: References
- 04: Material Culture
- 4.01: The things we make
- 4.02: Taking to the road
- 4.03: From one end of the country to another
- 4.04: Final reflection
- 05: Culture as Thought and Action
- 5.01: Non-material aspects of culture
- 5.02: Beliefs
- 5.03: Values
- 5.04: Norms
- 5.05: Customs and Traditions
- 5.06: Rituals
- 5.07: Final reflection
- 06: Beliefs Values and Cultural Universals
- 6.01: Value Orientations Theory
- 6.02: Hofstedes dimensions of culture theory
- 6.03: Critique of Hofstedes theory
- 6.04: Final reflection
- 07: Group Membership and Identity
- 7.01: Preliminary remarks
- 7.02: Cultures and subcultures
- 7.03: Ethnicity
- 7.04: Racial identity
- 7.05: Social class and culture
- 7.06: Nationality
- 7.07: The origin of nations
- 7.08: National identity
- 7.09: Final reflection
- 08: Roots of American National Culture
- 8.01: Preliminary remarks
- 8.02: American beliefs and values
- 8.03: A closer look at American cultural diversity
- 8.04: Understanding U.S. Cultural Landscapes
- 8.05: Spanish influence
- 8.06: French influence
- 8.07: Dutch influence
- 8.08: Albions Seed
- 8.09: Englanders from Barbados
- 8.10: The Westward Expansion
- 8.11: Final reflection