A Theory of Culture

this paper is to present an answer to the question "what is culture?" on a rather theoretical level. There are some examples included, however the emphasis is on theory. The reason for this is pragmatism: I am not experienced enough in actual anthropological applications to present them in depth, the aim for examples is just to make the theory a little bit clearer. This paper has basically three parts: first a motivation why I chose this theory, second a presentation of paradigm and theory and third the implications of, possible applications of, and examples for the theory. Originally, I wanted to include a revised version of assignment 3 in the part about the motivation. I decided however that it is more appropriate to include here just what directly contributed to the theory. There are many things which made small but important contributions, I just decided to draw a line somewhere. The core of this paper is a changed version of assignment 4. Major changes are revised and new figures, additions to the section about contents, changes in that one about change and important amendments and changes in the section about culture. Chapter