The problematic concept of culture: An anthropological vision

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Department of Anthropology, Faculty of African Postgraduate Studies, Cairo University

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This study attempts to monitor the problematic concept of culture in anthropology due to the nature of the idea and its close connection with the human being, who is usually adaptable to nature and subject to change, difference and development. Thus, the concept of culture is one of the concepts that must have that necessary flexibility. In this regard, the study adopted a theoretical approach to world visions with reliance on field study through focus interviews as a methodological approach. The study has reached several results, the most important of which is that the idea of the problematic concept of culture among the early anthropologists is a flimsy and unreal problem that got in the way of the early scholars. This could be attributed to anthropology being associated with colonialism in Africa in the past and that common view on Africans as primitive, traditional people who live with no organisation or social system, unlike Europeans and Americans. The African anthropologists did not accept or comprehend the nature of life, thought, and culture but only tried to link and compare. The researcher recommends the importance of developing definitions and concepts through the person who gives the word meaning and function

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