Recent theoretical developments seek to identify the dynamic nature of cultural phenomena. This article presents the main ideas of the ‘culture on the move’ approach. Researchers guided by this perspective try to understand how culture is mobilised by social actors in response to changing circumstances. Culture will be conceived as a directory of skills to act. The first part of this article discusses the approaches of Ann Swidler and Charles Tilly; in the second, these ideas are tested to understand social phenomena of the Peruvian case, such as strategies for survival, social mobility, and citizenship, among others. This analysis suggests that the cultural repertoires with which Peruvians build action strategies have diversified over the past decades. These are flexible repertoires combining established and unprecedented forms of problem-solving.