Culture: “Culture […] is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law. Morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, Boston 1871, p. 1.
Intercultural: The intercultural is a space of negotiation that opens the way to the inter(connectedness) of cultures, based not on the exoticism or relativism of multiculturalism or on the diversity of cultures, but offering an insight in the struggles and in the performative histories and trajectories of becoming cultures. So, the inter is the cutting edge of translation and negotiation, the in between space where cultures not only reveal their meanings and appearances, but also reveal how they merge to something new. (Based on: H. Bhabha, The location of Cultures.)
Multicultural: part of the notion of cultural diversity: Seen through the lens of cultural diversity cultures become epistemological objects, objects of knowledge that tend to be compared as pre-given contents and customs. (H. Bhabha, The location of Culture)
Transcultural: notion of universality of culture or of cultural aspects that are common to all cultures. It transcends the notion of cultural difference.
Cultural diversity: Cultural diversity is the recognition of pre-given cultural contexts and customs. Because it is held in a time-frame of relativism it gives rise to liberal notions of the multicultural and cross-cultural. H. Bhabha, The location of Culture
Theatre anthropology: A) Where can an Occidental actor turn in order to find out how to construct the material bases of his art? This is the question which theatre anthropology attempts to answer. E. Barba, Floating Islands.
B) Just as theatre is anthropologizing itself, so anthropology is being theatricalized. This convergence is the historical occasion for all kinds of exchanges. The convergence of anthropology and theatre is part of a larger intellectual movement where the understanding of human behavior is changing from quantifiable differences between cause and effect, form and content etc.” Richard Schechner, Between Theatre & Anthropology.
Cultural difference: The notion of cultural difference focuses on the problem of the ambivalence of cultural authority. On the one hand it implies the acceptance of difference as difference, and on the other hand it postulates the awareness of the cultural supremacy which is itself produced only in the moment of differentiation. This includes a consciousness that different cultures are never unitary in themselves, but again marked by differences, such like gender, ethnics, classes etc..
