The Concept of Culture in Anthropological Research: A Reading in Contexts of Origin and Trajectories of Circulation

Abstract

This research comes to identify the concept of culture in anthropological research through a reading of the contexts of origin and the trajectories of circulation, due to the intertwined relationship that has arisen between culture and anthropology in particular as a central concept within this scientific discipline, in order to touch that thread that regulates the path of transmission of this central concept according to an upward path from the common language to the space of semantics related to scientific competence in the field of anthropological research. Because evoking the intellectual and civilizational contexts that led to the emergence of the concept of culture and its crystallization within the context of its relationship to anthropology, both in terms of perception and academic practice, leads us to stand on the importance of anthropology as one of the cognitive incubators that contributed in a significant way to crystallizing the concept of culture in terms of its impact and reflection in drawing semantic features. This has become closely related to this concept within the fields of circulation that accompanied the development of anthropological research since the inception of the latter until the present time.