Culture: References & Edit History

For a general account of man and culture, see William A. Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, 5th ed. (1987); Richard A. Barrett, Culture and Conduct (1984); Marc J. Swartz and David K. Jordan, Culture: The Anthropological Perspective (1980); and Elman R. Service, Primitive Social Organization: An Evolutionary Perspective, 2nd ed. (1971). The unique capacity for symboling that distinguishes humans from primates is discussed by Leslie A. White, “The Symbol: The Origin and Basis of Human Behavior,” in his Science of Culture, 2nd ed., pp. 22–39 (1969); Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture (1944, reprinted 1974); and Terence Dixon and Martin Lucas, The Human Race (1982). The many conceptions of culture are discussed in A.L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions (1952, reprinted 1978). See also Leslie A. White and Beth Dillingham, The Concept of Culture (1973); and Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (1973, reissued 1975). The history of theory and method in social and cultural anthropology is traced in Fred W. Voget, A History of Ethnology (1975).