ANT102H5 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 (9/12)
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A historically transmitted pattern of meaning embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life -geertz. We do not observe a culture since that word denotes, not any concrete reality but an abstraction. But direct observation does reveal to us that human beings are connected by a complex network of social relations. I use the term social structure to denote this network of actually existing relations -radcliffe-brown. Most anthropologists have abandoned the concept of culture, society, the idea of.
