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Part I The symbolic animal - foundations of cultural transmission andacquisition: the impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man;culture is ordinary; the education of the Samoan child; stalking stories;education and the human condition; the nature of education; why doFrenchmen?; becoming a marihuana user. Part II Culture, modernization andformal education: the shaping of men's minds - adaptations to imperatives ofculture; formal schooling and the production of modern citizens in theeducation amazon; transmitting traditional values in new schools - elementaryeducation of Pulap Atoll; the cultural transformation of Western education inSierra Leone. Part III School practice and community life - culturalcongruence, conflict and discontinuity: what no bedtime story means -narrative skills at home and school; understanding cultural diversity andlearning; formation and transformation of funds of knowledge among US-Mexicanhouseholds; habitus and cultural identity - home/school relationships inrural France. Part IV Cultural production and reproduction in contemporaryschools: ability grouping as a self-fulfilling prophecy - a microanalysis ofteacher-student interaction; beneath the skin and between the ears - a casestudy in the politics of representation; moments of discontent - universitywomen and the gender status quo; class and gender dynamics in a ruling classschool. Part V New directions and approaches to culture, learning andeducation: those loud black girls - (black) women, silence and gender passingin the academy; tying things together (and stretching them out) with popularculture; fieldwork in the postcommunity; the fax, the jazz player and theself-history teller - how do people organize culture?: between discourse andschema - reformulating a cultural-historical approach to culture and mind;afterword - implications for policy and practice.