The Tapestry of Culture is a brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology, providing them a conceptual framework with which to read and understand both classic and contemporary ethnographies. This new edition maintains its symbolic conceptual approach with an emphasis on the arts and symbols of culture, including such chapters as Myths, Legends, and Folktales (Ch. 11) and The Artistic Dimension (Ch. 12), as well as a discussion of the relationship between language and symbolism.