ABSTRACT
What is a culture, if not a consensus? (Clifford Geertz)
What is a culture? The way we do things around here? Core values plus norms plus behaviour (about which there is some consensus) and artefacts? Subjective mental software copied from an objective tradition? Rituals that train us into socially approved habits? The web of meanings spun around us so that we can go on understanding and interpreting the world and ourselves? Practices, representations, languages, and customs? There are notoriously many, often incompatible definitions, but differences between them do not seem to bother us too much in our daily lives.
