Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience.

Most often the focus is on phenomena shared by non-elite groups in a society, such as: carnival, festival, and public ritual s; performance traditions of tale, epic, and other verbal forms; and cultural expressions of social movements such as nationalism. Many studies consider adaptations of traditional culture to mass media, from print to film and, now, to the Internet.

See also: cultural studies.