Concept
Cultural history
Overview
study of cultural activity and evolution of traditions over time
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In consequence of this constant change of motives and of existing conditions, even totemic culture made numerous attempts in the direction of political organization. Such steps were taken particularly by the semi-cultural peoples of America, who possess a relatively high civilization. It is precisely in the case of these peoples that it is instructive to notice the contrast between this political tendency and the…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Cultural history; the term itself is not named.
Unconscious selection will have been still more effective; for during a lengthened period the more valuable individual animals will occasionally have been saved, and the less valuable neglected. In the course of time, different varieties, especially in the less civilised countries, will also have been more or less modified through natural selection. It is generally believed, though on this head we have little or no…
Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
Close in meaning to Cultural history; the term itself is not named.
Three groups of societies were the special object of the researches which were concerned with totemism. These are, first, certain tribes of the North-west, the Tlinkit, the Haida, the Kwakiutl, the Salish and the Tsimshian; then, the great nation of the Sioux; and finally, the Pueblo Indians in the south-western part of the United States. The first were studied principally by Dall, Krause, Boas, Swanton, Hill Tout…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Close in meaning to Cultural history; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Cultural history
- Mircea Eliade
- Jean Bodin
- The Order of Things
- Richard Tarnas
- Franciscus Patricius
- Theodor Litt
- Walter J. Ong
- Kieran Egan (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Ritual
- Ethnicity
- History
- Film theory
- French Revolution
- Annales school
- Philosophy
- Art criticism
- Internet
- Power (social and political)
- Jürgen Habermas
- Paradigm
- Modernity
- Sociology
- Geography
- Marxism
- Culture
- BBC
- Art history
- Film
- Nationalism
- Performance
- Politics
- Perception
Place in the tradition
Part of Richard Tarnas.