![]() ![]() Without men, no culture, certainly but equally, and more significantly, without culture, no men.What this means is that culture, rather than being added on, so to speak, to a finished or virtually finished animal, was ingredient, and centrally ingredient, in the production of that animal itself.We all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end up in the end having lived only one (p.The Garden refers to the safety of previous cultural theories that all somehow incorporate cultural differences into the "truth" that men are ultimately the same.Thus, man is a fundamentally cultural creature. ![]() Argument: Without culture we are not human, and it is in the differences between cultures that this truth exists.Brief Summary: Geertz discusses previous, popular anthropological views of culture, then proceeds to poke holes in them and replaces them with his own theory of culture. ![]()
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