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Cultural Appropriation

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What Is Culture?

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as a historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols. Some anthropologists have suggested that this is maybe a little too immaterial and we need to think more about embodied material practices. Homie Baba says that culture only emerges as a problem at the point at which there is a loss of meaning in the contestation and articulation of everyday life.

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