Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Background and history -- Chapter 3. Language to culture - building from Kronenfeld's semantic theory -- Chapter 4. Culture as distributed cognition -- Chapter 5. An agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples -- Chapter 6. Society (with a note on the self) -- Chapter 7. Ethnicity -- Chapter 8. The social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators - the Sami example -- Chapter 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge - a non-exhaustive list -- Chapter 10. Illustrative Examples -- Chapter 11. Problems - messages vs. codes -- Chapter 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships -- Chapter 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models -- Chapter 14. Gregory Bateson: pulling it all together -- Backmatter