Culture and Superculture in a Displaced Community:

• Main Authors: Tristan Da Cunha, Peter A. Munch
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Tristan; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.9161; http://www.peacefulsocieties.org/Archtext/Munch64.pdf

Anthropologists—and sociologists who have borrowed the concept—have for a long time been talking about "subculture " in the sense of a partially distinct cultural system within a larger system. I am here offering the concept "superculture, " which is simply the larger system (or...