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“Culture is a dynamic concept”. Elucidate with example

  • UPSC 2022
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

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Culture, in E.B. Tylor's classic 1871 formulation, is that "complex whole" of knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and habits acquired by a person as a member of society — for the geographer it is the learned, shared, transmitted and spatially expressed design for living that converts undifferentiated space into meaningful place.

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  • Culture as agent: the cultural landscape as culture's changing signature
  • The mechanisms that make culture dynamic
  • Diffusion — the spatial engine of cultural change
  • Acculturation, assimilation and syncretism
  • Technology, economy and the state as accelerators
  • From the superorganic to the contested: culture as a concept in motion
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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