Американская антропологическая школа: концепция культуры А. Крёбера и её последующая оценка (К. Гирц и Л. Уайт)

Гл. 33. С. 355–365.

Тимченко О. В.

This paper aims to show that Alfred Kroeber played a very important role in developing the concept of culture in American anthropological tradition and that his influence can be traced in the following concepts and methods. American anthropological school, in contrast to European tradition, is associated with Kroeber’s understanding of culture as an independent extrasomatic reality which grows according to its own laws irreducible to the laws of organic world and society. Kroeber contributed significantly to the institutionalization of cultural anthropology. The results of his field work and his numerous theoretical works laid the foundation of American cultural anthropology, progressive and authoritative school we know today.

Keywords: culture concept, extrasomatic tradition, cultural pattern/style, cultural area, genius, концепция культуры, экстрасоматическая традиция, культурный стиль, культурный ареал, гений

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Философия. Язык. Культура (Вып.3)

Вып. 3. , СПб.: Алетейя, 2012.