Culture?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jan 10 21:04:18 PST 2003


All the posts on this topic seem to equate culture with art -- or at least with public performance of some sort.

Louis Kampf once defined "culture" (I forget whether in some publication or in personal conversation) as the organization of daily life.

Isn't whether people eat breakfast or merely have coffee, or how they organize the spaces of their homes, or how many sit-down meals they have a day, or how they dress at home, or their voluability in conversation with other members of the household, or the proportion of "free time" alloted to personal care, or their standards of household cleanliness, a rather more profound manifestation of culture than the content of a TV show or their conduct at a sporting event?

Carrol



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