From <@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU:owner-anthro-l@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> Thu Jan 19 15:21:42 1995 Received: from UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu (ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu [128.205.2.1]) by Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA06404 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:21:38 -0600 Message-Id: <199501192121.PAA06404@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> X-Provider: NeoSoft, Inc.: Internet Service Provider (713) 684-5969 Received: from UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU by UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8397; Thu, 19 Jan 95 16:15:04 EST Received: from UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UBVM) by UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1910; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:14:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:47:00 PST Reply-To: "Gessler, Nicholas (G) ANTHRO" Sender: General Anthropology Bulletin Board From: "Gessler, Nicholas (G) ANTHRO" Subject: "culture" defined since K&K 1952? To: Multiple recipients of list ANTHRO-L Status: R Thank you to the many subscribers who replied privately with the following reference (which is available in two editions), and a number who requested that I post the results. THE main reference is: Author: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 Title: Culture; a critical review of concepts and definitions, by A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn. With the assistance of Wayne Untereiner and appendices by Alfred G. Meyer. Published: Cambridge, Mass., The Museum 1952. Also: New York, Random House, a Vintage Book 195?. Series: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, v. 47, no.1. The second part of my question asked for a "more systematic (and by implication recent) survey or quantification... of our use of the term," and Joan Miller contributed a circa 1959 Talcot Parsons short article. The concensus is that K&K's treatment is out of date, but that nothing more recent has appeared. What I am really looking for would be something analogous to an archaeological artifact clustering based upon an analysis of attributes. It would be a constellation of clusterings in n-dimensions of variable-space (definition-space) for the associations of the word "culture." This general "ignorance based" procedure for classifying texts can be meaningful, and is (to be) described in SCIENCE in an article by Marc Damashek of the National Security Agency. Nick Gessler UCLA - Anthropology gessler@anthro.sscnet.ucla.edu