For this reason, like many anthropologists in the 1980s, Abu-Lughod and Lutz distanced themselves from the culture concept, preferring to speak of “discourses” rather than using Geertz’s concept of culture. “Discourse,” in Foucault’s thought, is recognized as a locus for the exercise of political power. Discourses, for Foucault, by the very cate- gories they employ, give rise to disciplinary activities and license insti- tutional structures of domination. Discourses differ from culture as Geertz understood it in that they are potentially multiple (more than one may be available at a given time), in that they change over time (although how they come to change is not explained in Foucault’s writ- ings), and in that they may be resisted (although how