Introduction
1 Clifford Geertz: thick description
2 Hayden White and history as mixture of fact and fiction
3 Julia Kristeva: the female perspective on culture
4 Homi K. Bhabha: post-colonial hybridity
5 Pierre Bourdieu and sociological theory
6 Martha Nussbaum: ethics and literary theory
Conclusion: the strands of the web of culture
Index