... Franz Boas Clark Wissler American Museum of Natural History culture areas culture concept ...

... experimental system experimental culture in vitro experimentation concepts of nature concepts of culture ...

... culturalism constituent elements and features of scientific cultures culture as a problematic concept diachronic and synchronic variations ...

..., it focuses on the substitution of the concept of relative cultures for the idea of race as an explanation for human difference. These issues are explored with regard to the museum’s collecting in both North America and the Old World, as well as the resultant classification of relative culture areas...

... The conclusion reviews how the various transactional realities discussed in the book paved the way for postwar forms of multicultural governance by (to different degrees) displacing hierarchical conceptions of race in favor of more plural and cultural conceptions of difference. It looks first...

... This chapter traces the nature of industrial capitalism as a new form of conquest throughout the past century and the present at the US-Mexico border. Alejandro Lugo’s examination of the region reveals relational conceptions of class and changing conceptions of culture from “shared cultural...

.... It was paralleled by tissue cultures in the test tube. From the 1930s on, fractionation of cellular contents became predominant. The opposition that these experimental moves encountered is also traced. The chapter concludes by suggesting the historiographical potential of the concept of experimental culture, which...

... This chapter historicizes the concept of culture to better understand discussions of culture and cultural difference in the sciences and beyond. Historicization not only traces the past meanings and practices related to "culture" but also contributes to a more refined and reflexive application...

... The introduction presents the key questions the book addresses and draws on its chapters to outline an approach to cultural diversity in scientific practice. It begins by laying out both the attractions of invoking a concept of culture in studies of science and the main difficulties that often...

... This chapter examines the spiritualist conception of world in Hegel’s philosophy of world history. It explores how Hegel foregrounds the reality of violence in his optic of world history, the important role of culture in the justification of violence in relations between states, and how...

... This essay explores the concept of the semicolonial as a form of the locally lived global history of capitalism as a socioeconomic and cultural formation. By contrasting the 1930s and the 1990s versions of the concept—where the 1930s poses the problem in a global imperialist context...

... that the human figure is reproduced by both cultural and material elements. Insofar as the “human” is both a material and a cultural concept, the subject of queer human rights is an appropriate paradox that cannot be defined by economic status or sexual identity alone. human rights Ma Ying-jeou same-sex...

... This chapter historicizes the concept of culture to better understand discussions of culture and cultural difference in the sciences and beyond. Historicization not only traces the past meanings and practices related to "culture" but also contributes to a more refined and reflexive application of the concept...

... This chapter argues that the most lively contemporary legacy of the 1980s Writing Culture critiques now lie outside or beyond conventional texts, in the forms that are integral to fieldwork itself. Fieldwork today requires a kind of collaborative concept work that stimulates studios, archiving...

... This chapter examines the tensions that arise between ad executives and their corporate clients about their creative work. Concepts of “affect,” “race,” and the culture of workplaces in the “new economy” provide a foundation for analysis of interaction about advertising approaches and concepts...

... The introduction uses Saidiya Hartman’s concept/method of “critical fabulation” to think about the theoretical significance of the Now via the conduit of R&B music. It also makes an argument for the theoretical, cultural, and political significance of contemporary R&B music...