面对第一个抉择,我决定只收入那些与文化概念有直接而明显关系的论文。事实上,这些论文的大多数不是理论探求而是经验研究,因为当我离社会生活的直接体验太远时,我就会感到不舒服。但是所有的论文基本上都是通过一个又一个的实例,来提出一个独特的——别人也许会认为是奇怪的观点来阐明什么是文化,它在社会生活中扮演了什么角色,以及应该如何恰当地研究它。
传统研究面对的只是墨西哥和美国对墨美文化的解释。
Traditional research has confronted only Mexican and United States interpretations of Mexican-American culture.
所有这些都对色彩偏好给出了一个生理的而非文化的解释。
All this suggests a biological, rather than a cultural, explanation for colour preference.
她向他们展示了流行文化中的美女的图片和形象,并解释了电脑技术是如何让这些女性看起来比现实生活中更瘦、更漂亮的。
She shows them pictures and images from popular culture of beautiful women and explains how computers are used to make the women look even more thin and beautiful than they are in real life.
This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.
这就很容易解释,为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要,而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。
I'm not aware that any other culture that had city states had ideas of this kind that helped make explain why one was associated with it and cared about it.
我没有发现,其他城市国家的文化中存在一种思想,能够解释,为什么人与城邦关联并为其服务
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