American Anthropology
Although anthropologists worldwide refer to Tylor's definition of culture, in the 20th century "culture" emerged as the central and unifying concept of American anthropology, where it most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially. American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture:
- biological anthropology
- linguistic anthropology
- cultural anthropology
- archaeology
Research in these fields has influenced anthropologists working in other countries to different degrees.
Read more about this topic: Kultur, 20th Century Discourses, Anthropology
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