ABSTRACT
One of the most commonly reiterated themes in social theories of culture is that the culture of a community structures and orders everyday life. Culture imbues personal experience with meaning and significance: in part through the provision of a repertoire of local sayings, frequently repeated values, and the use of categories of admiration or mockery in relation to local figures and so on; and, in part, through the provision of a ritual calendar that provides a structure of festivals and symbolically important transitions for individual lives as well as communal festivals marking seasonal change, the accession of new rulers and occasions and sites of licensed transgression etc. Culture therefore works on a number of levels and through a number of forms to give a structure of predictability and continuity to the practice of community life.
