The paper exemplifies an interdisciplinary approach to the concept of anarchism. It deals with the possibility of viewing the ideology of anarchism through the lens of the concept of culture.Key words used in the paper: anarchism, syndicalism, culture, ideology, nature and plasticity of man, ethnographic fiction, and fiction as ethnography relate to the interdisciplinary approach I used in addressing the question of the possibility of anarchism as a culture by applying it to the novel The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.In the introductory part of the paper I deal with the concept of anarchism present in scholarly literature on the subject and propose a new understanding of the concept anarchism as a culture.The first part of the paper analyzes the concept of anarchism through a historical as well as a theoretical approach distancing the author from the vast majority of scholarly works on the subject of anarchism.The second part of the paper introduces the concepts of culture as defined by Raymond Williams and Clifford Geertz and the concept of ideology utilized by Louis Althusser in an attempt to achieve a synthesis of these views.The third part of the paper uses the novel The Dispossessed as testing ground for the anarchism as a culture hypothesis in the form of a fictive ethnographic account problematizing the relationship between anthropology and fiction.