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Lecture Two Culture and Translation What is Culture? “Culture may be defined as what a society does and thinks.” (Sapir, 1921) “What really binds men together is their culture ---- the ideas and the standards they have in common.” (R. Benedict, 1935) “By ‘culture’, anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group. Or culture can be regarded as that part of the environment that is the creation of man.” (Clyde Kluckhohn, 1965) “Culture is man’s medium; there is not one aspect of human of life that is not touched and altered by culture.