After reading the articles provided for this week, offer your opinion on why anthropologists and other

scholars have never reached an agreement on the definition of "culture"

The concept of “Culture” was first defined in the Anne Robert Jacques Turgot’s On the Historical Progress of
the Human Mind (1750). In this book Jacques Turgot symbolically described human as the possessor of a
treasure of signs which has the faculty of multiplying to infinity, able to assure the retention of the ideas
required, to communicate them to others, to and to transmit them to his successors as a constantly expanding
heritage.

From this opinion we see that human mind is ever expanding and ever changing. So their culture is also ever
changing that cannot be limited within one definition.

The contact and interchange between two culturally different groups of people in increasing from the pre-
historic era to the modern time of universalism. Movement of people affluent countries to other part of the
world and vice versa is taking place and continuously contributing in the change of culture. So the “culture”
with interaction to different “culture” is ever changing and cannot be limited to any singular definitions of the
anthropologists.

Cultural changes are taking place more rapidly in the current era. For the sake of satellite television, mobile
phone connectivity and easy access and movability to any part of the world made it easy to interchange and
interacts between different cultural groups and entity. So the culture of particular group changing its shape
with the flow of time. Thus the definitions of culture is also ever-changing in regards of time and
anthropologists.