Culture belongs to everyone (and no one)
Interview with Harvard Professor Martin Puchner on the topic of his new book, “Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop.” As he explains in the interview, “In culture there’s always someone who came before you…positions that have to do with cultural appropriation sometimes go off in the wrong direction..[that] can leave everyone impoverished in a certain way.”
Puchner explores not only the turning points but “the constancy through time of cultural borrowing — or, as many view it, theft.” In the interview, the Gazette talks to him “about the genesis of ‘Culture,’ the perils of pride, the future of the humanities, and more.”
