...familiar to us: he suggests the notion of cultural competence as an analog to linguistic competence: Culture, conceived as a system of competence shared...unfamiliar or the ambiguous, in interacting with strangers (or supernaturals), and in other settings peripheral to the familiarity of mundane everyday life space;...

...have become embedded in daily social encounters. In the words of Keesing (1974, p. 89), culture is "not all of what an individual knows and thinks and...of the code being followed, the game being played." This theory is used by individuals to interpret events and to govern their behavior. Because language...

...world. 1t is his [or her] theory of what his [or her] fellows know, believe, and mean, his [or her) theory of the code being followed, the game being played, in the society into which he [or she] was horn. ... 1t is this theory to which a native actor [or actress] refers in interpreting...

...world. 1ris his [or herj theory of what his [or herj fellows know, believe, and mean, his [or herj theory of the code being followed, the game being played. in the society into which he [or she) was horn 1t is this theory to wbich a native actor [or actressj refers in interpreting the...

...shared in its broad design and deeper principles, and varying between individuals in its specifications, is then not all of what an individual knows and thinks...being played, in the society into which he was born. (Keesing, 1974: 89, italics in the original) Keesing (as to a certain extent Goodenough) emphasises...

...shared in its broad design and deeper principles, and varying between individuals in its specifications, is then not all of what an individual knows and thinks...being played, in the society into which he was born. (Keesing, 1974: 89, italics in the original) Keesing (as to a certain extent Goodenough) emphasises...