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A Historical Site for the Unit of Culture Research
1998–2022 |
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The Unit
of Culture Research was established in 1997/8 as a master's degree program,
and became a unit with a department status in February 1999. Preceded it a
“cluster” within the General Studies program at the Faculty of Humanities. In
2022, it was decided to unite the Unit of Cultural Research with the MA program in Child
and Youth Culture Research, and the staff of the united
unit changed. The Unit of Culture
Research has aspired to develop an integrative field of research and studies,
based on a broad anthropological conception of culture as a dynamic
repertoire of possibilities for action that conditions social life, and the
survival and life expectancy of the individual. The study of culture deals
with the formation, distribution, preservation, and transformation of the
patterns of life that human beings develop, as groups and as individuals,
that allow the management of life in every aspect, for example: what to eat,
where to live, who to choose as a partner, how to raise the offspring, what
to believe and invest efforts in. These possibilities were not born by
nature, although there is a biological basis of abilities that allows humans
to develop a diverse and complex repertoire of patterns better than any other
animal. The human ability to store the possibilities as solutions to given
situations, to pass the pool of solutions between generations, and to create
possibilities for new situations (including the creation of these new
situations themselves) have allowed humans to have life on almost the entire
planet, in climates that are radically different from each other: from ice to
desert. The diversity created in culture, the ways in which it spreads and
changes, its transmission between different groups of people and the
struggles between groups for its appropriation or creation of new
possibilities are all the foundation of fundamental questions in the study of
culture. Aspects of cultural research have been developed in a wide variety
of different fields, from biology to anthropology, from history to economics
and psychology, from sociology to linguistics and f text analysis. The study
of culture aims to learn from the achievements in all of these areas and
combine them into a single multifaceted discipline. |
Tel Aviv University Unit of Culture Research 1997/8–2022 (Ha Yexida le Mexqar ha Tarbut) Historical Site |
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Laboratories
Laboratory
for Identity and Environmental Action
Laboratory for
Transfer, Intercultural Relations, and translation
Laboratory
for Material Culture
Laboratory for Psycho-Culture
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