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Copyright 1974. 4 ll rights reserved THEORIES OF CULTURE . Roger M. Keesing^. Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian Nationai Universily Cdoberra , Australia INTRODUCTION. "Yanomamo CULTURE ," "Japanese CULTURE ," "the evolution of CULTURE ," "nature vs CULTURE "; we anthropologists are still using that word, and we stili think it means something. But looking across at our primate relatives learning local traditions, using tools, and manipulating symbols, we can no longer say comfortably that " CULTURE " is the heritage of learned symbolic behavior that makes humans human. And standing amid the swirling tides of change and individual diversity, we can no longer say comfortably that "a cuiture" is the heritage people in a particular society share. Moreover, we increasingly realize that the holistic, humanistic view of CULTURE synthesized by Kroeber and Kluckhohn includes too much and is too diffuse either to separate analytically the twisted threads of human experience or to interpret the designs into which they are woven.
74 KEESING falling into four focal areas. Having highlighted work being done in each area,^ I will seek to clarify the terminological, philosophical, and substantive issues that
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