Culture is a Process!
- Authors: Lewis D.C.1,2
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Affiliations:
- School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University
- Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
- Issue: Vol 2, No 3 (2021)
- Pages: 153-163
- Section: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2713-3125/article/view/376159
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.47850/RL.2021.2.3.153-163
- ID: 376159
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Abstract
Cultures change and are not static, so culture can be regarded as a process, not a state. Change can be produced by either internal or external factors, or a combination of both, so assumptions about cultures being in equilibrium are probably unrealistic. This paper considers ways in which ethnicity is commonly defined in terms of cultural markers: these overlap with one another within a culture or else, over time, can diverge from one another to such an extent that a new culture can be born.
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About the authors
David. C. Lewis
School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University; Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
Email: dlewis@yandex.com
Visiting Professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. Researcher at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, England. Besides his teaching in China, he has taught about Japan at the universities of Cambridge and Leeds and has conducted research on the anthropology of religion in Japan, England, Russia and elsewhere in the former USSR.
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