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E.B. Tyler’s (1871) classic 19th-century definition of culture as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, custom, and many other capabilities and habits acquired by man as members of society” provided a unifying concept for the emerging discipline of anthropology. During its formative years in the second half of the 19th century, social anthropology was engaged in the holistic and comparative study of the capacity of the human species to symbolize and communicate socially the universal and particular experiences of being human throughout the world.
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Nash, J. (2014). Reassessing the Culture Concept in the Analysis of Global Social Movements: An Anthropological Perspective. In: Baumgarten, B., Daphi, P., Ullrich, P. (eds) Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385796_4
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