A set of beliefs, practices, rituals, and traditions shared by a group of people with at least one point of common identity (such as their ethnicity, race, or rationality). At its core is the sense that it is different from nature in that it is a product of conscious choice and not the instinct. But as authors like Haraway, Donna have shown, the nature/culture divide is difficult to sustain. A wide range of disciplines---predominantly anthropology, archaeology, Cultural Studies, history and sociology---make use of the concept of culture, each one adding its own qualification, making it problematic to say that what is meant by this word is exactly the same in any two disciplines. Obviously there are common themes and the differences tend to be related to scope, and turn on the question of whether or not a limit can be placed on what counts as cultural. In the social sciences, particularly history and sociology, culture has usually been opposed to society, and given a lower status, as it was thought to refer to pastimes rather than the serious business of holding the collectivity together. However, the general trend with this term, even in the social sciences, has been expansive, so that even within the confines of specific disciplines it has been enlarged to encompass virtually every facet of human behaviour. And in recent times it has overtaken society as the dominant term as doubts have grown as to the existence or even the possibility of society. Culture has thus come to stand for âweakâ rather than âstrongâ ties between people within a given collectivity. The types of cultures that are now said to exist are innumerable---there is banking culture, work culture, music culture, sports culture, and so on. In the humanities, from the time of Matthew Arnold in the late nineteenth century up until very late in the twentieth century, culture referred to artistic production of all types, and was further classified into categories of âhighâ and âlowâ reflecting the perceived relative aesthetic merit of a particular work. The advent of Cultural Studies in 1950s Britain began to change that, as it combined ways of thinking about culture from history and sociology and conceived of culture as the glue holding society together. Culture came to refer to any form of creative production, from the self-consciously artistic work of professional artists to the relatively banal habitus and practices of everyday life. It is this sense of the word that has lately become dominant. The principal theoretical problem culture raises is one of reproduction: why do people adhere to a given culture and to what extent are their actions determined by this?