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Cultural Relativism and the Logic of Language

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Joachim Israel
Joachim Israel*
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University of Lund
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A. L. Kroeber, who together with C. Kluckhohn wrote a now classical review of the concept of culture (1958), claimed that the most significant accomplishment of anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century was the extension and clarification of the concept of culture. In the book mentioned they analyzed about 300 different definitions of the concept. In a critical review of Kroeber's and Kluckhohn's book their colleague L. A. White contests Kroeber's claims and writes: “On the contrary, I believe that confusion has increased as conceptions of culture have been multiplied and diversified” (1954, p. 461).

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Diogenes , Volume 29 , Issue 113-114 , March 1981 , pp. 107 - 126
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Copyright © 1981 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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