This document discusses culture as a central theme of anthropology. It provides definitions of culture from several anthropologists such as M.J. Hershkowitz, E.B. Taylor, B. Malinowski, and A.L. Kroeber. Culture is defined as the man-made part of the environment, a complex whole of knowledge and beliefs acquired by members of a society, an instrumental reality that satisfies biological and derived needs, and as being super organic and super individual. The document also discusses characteristics of culture such as it being learned, shared, transmitted between generations, changing, universal, multidimensional, integrated, adaptive, operating symbolically, and bounding. Finally, it discusses the concepts of accult