Concept information
Preferred term
cultural survivals
Definition
- Toward the end of the colonial era, there seemed an imperative to collect, record, and catalog as much about the disappearing cultures encountered by colonial Europe as possible. From the perspective of the19th-century traveler, government official, and academic, it seemed that cultural traditions were rapidly becoming extinct following the perceived lure of the modern world to those living in a traditional world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Survivals, Cultural]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cultural_survivals
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