ENGLISH 2M06- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Historical accounts giving information about different people and their day-day life. Raymond williams, (1921-1988), from his book culture 1978, famously pointed out that the word culture is one of the most difficult words in the english language, and has several and different contradicting meanings in several disciplines and academia. The word culture comes from the latin word colere, which has a range of meanings, it means inhabit, cultivate, protect, honour with worship. Medieval and renaissance europe, culture referred to as the cultivation of animals and crops. Early 16th century, culture and cultivation is used metaphorically to describe human development. Late 18th/early 19th century, the german word kultur emerged as a synonym for civilization, but also in an alternative usage, to reference plural cultures or ways of life. Williams suggested that three meanings of culture emerged in the early 19th century: A general process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development or improvement.
