DISTRIBUTIONAL INSTABILITY AND THE UNITS OF CULTURE(1).

From: Ethnology | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The analytical approach is familiar, powerful, and compelling, but not all scientific understanding builds upon discrete elemental units and their combinatorics. The question this essay addresses is whether the analytical approach is appropriate for the study of human culture. Does culture have clearly identifiable, distributionally stable parts sufficient to justify the particulate mode of understanding? Is culture comprised of elemental units, or is it merely convenient to think of it this way? The essay suggests that the quest for natural units of culture is a doomed ...

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