ABSTRACT
The orthodox anthropological concept of culture was fully constructed by the time the Second World War began. It exhibited the essential characteristics that would ensure the concept’s success for the remainder of the twentieth century – culture was the totalizing concept that captured whole communities and enabled scholars to describe them. Although, it was an artificial construct, it had reflected the context, concerns and factory conditions within which the cultural anthropologists, as they were now called, worked. Once established in American social science, the anthropological concept of culture would take up a more prominent role in the factory conditions that IR scholars and practitioners operated under, becoming something of a conventional standard itself in the new post-war era.
