Journal article
Culture
- Abstract:
- If you are not sure what ‘culture’ means, you are not alone. In 1952, anthropologists Kroeber and Kluckhohn identified 164 definitions of culture and there has been growth rather than rationalisation in the ensuing 70 years. In everyday English, culture is the knowledge and behaviour that characterises a particular group of people. Under this umbrella definition, culture was for many decades the exclusive province of the humanities and social sciences, where anthropologists, historians, linguists, sociologists and other scholars studied and compared the language, arts, cuisine, and social habits of particular human groups. Of course, that important work continues, but since the 1980s culture has also been a major focus of enquiry in the natural sciences.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.086
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- Publisher:
- Cell Press
- Journal:
- Current Biology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 20
- Pages:
- R1246-R1250
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-08-27
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1879-0445
- ISSN:
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0960-9822
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English
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1129297
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2020-08-29
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- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article, available under the terms of a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives licence. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.086
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