[Xmca-l] Re: anachronism

[Greg Thompson]

Andy,
Yes, it might depend on what you mean by "culture". No need to get into the
battles over the word as anthropology has over the past 30 years but it
would be worth knowing what you mean.

For example, David's reference to Vygotsky's very fashionable (yes, at that
time...) term "primitive" relies on a rather old fashioned meaning of
culture as "refinement" and "development." Thus E. B. Tylor's title
Primitive Culture was anachronistic (in the sense of an idea before its
time) because, on this common understanding of these terms, "primitive
culture" was an oxymoron.

I assume that you mean culture in the sense that anthropologists use it
today (or, I should say, as they used to use it not so long ago). Is that
right?

-greg

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 8:40 PM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:

> Everyone knows what "anachronism" means. "Out of time" so to speak.
>
> Is there a word for "out of culture"?
>
> Andy
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