KnowraCultural essentialismLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Cultural essentialism, each with the reason it gives.All 12Related 6Compared with 6UNESCO Intangible Cultural HeritageCompared with: Safeguarding can freeze a changing practice into a simplified image of tradition.Ruth BenedictCompared with: Benedict’s critics warn that pattern-based accounts can make cultural differences seem more uniform than they are.Culture and personalityCompared with: This is the danger critics identify when cultural patterns are treated as a single group personality.Lila Abu-LughodCompared with: Her ethnography emphasizes differences and historical change within communities often described as culturally uniform.Culture (social anthropology)Compared with: It conflicts with evidence that cultural practices vary and are contested within groups.Marcia LangtonCompared with: Her analyses resist reducing diverse Aboriginal peoples and changing cultures to a single essence.