Kei Urano 9/16/99 Critical Essay #1 During the first four weeks of our class, we have been reading and discussing numerous essays on the study of "culture". Each theorist we have read has questions and problems about the study of "culture". They have suggested us solutions to the problems as well. I have decided to closely analyze the essays from Richard Johnson, James Clifford, and Clifford Geertz. In his essay, "What is Cultural Studies Anyway?" Richard Johnson …showed first 75 words of 1405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1405 total…the conceptual world in which our subjects live so that we can, in some extended sense of the term, converse with them." (pg. 252-253). The three theorists all believe that cultural study is too generalized. I too agree with them. I have come in agreement with Geertz the most between the three theorists: "…if one looks for systematic treatises in the field, one is so soon disappointed, the more so if one finds any." (pg. 252).