Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems.

Richard G. Fox is President, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York. Barbara J. King isProfessor for Teaching Excellence, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg.

Part 1: Leaving Culture Worry Behind 1 Toward a Richer Description and Analysis of Cultural Phenomena Fredrik Barth 2 Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises, 3 Culture and Anthropology in Ethnographic Modernity, Part 2: Emergent Sociality 4 On Patterned Interactions and Culture in Great Apes 5 Anthropology as the Whole Science of What It Is to Be Human, 6 The Broader Implications of Borderline Areas of Language Research, Part 3: Patterns and Continuities, 7 Archaeology and Culture: Sites of Power and Process, 8 Language as a Model for Culture: Lessons from the Cognitive Sciences, 9 Cultural Variation in Time and Space: The Case for a Populational Theory of Culture, Part 4: The Politics of Culture, 10 The Politics of Culture in Post-apartheid South Africa, 11 "Culture" as Stereotype: Public Uses in Ecuador, 12 All Kulturvölker Now? Social Anthropological Reflections on the German-American Tradition.