ABSTRACT
Suddenly people seem to agree with us anthropologists; culture is everywhere. Immigrants have it, business corporations have it, young people have it, women have it, even ordinary middle-aged men may have it, all in their own versions. Where such versions meet, the talk is of “cultural collisions” (or, as we remember from the preceding chapter, of “culture shock”). We see advertising where products are extolled for “bed culture” and “ice cream culture,” and something called “the cultural defense plea” is under debate in jurisprudence.1
