[Xmca-l] Re: anachronism

[Andy Blunden]

Yes, I mean it in the sense Boas meant when he first used it
in the plural - "cultures".

I liked Helena's observation, of all the words we have for
people who don't belong to the relevant culture, but I mean
a word to describe ideas, claims, beliefs which are "blind"
to the incongruity of the idea with the relevant cultural
context. This is often a kind of anachronism, but not
always. The lack of a word arose in a controversy here in Oz
when US cultural norms were used to judge an action in an Oz
cultural context. ... That drew my attention to the lack of
a word, but I don't want to discuss the issue itself on this
list.

Andy

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Andy Blunden
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On 16/09/2018 3:21 PM, Greg Thompson wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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