The Resonance of 'Culture

Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History

Bibliographic Data

ID2108341
AuthorsAndrew Sartori (0009-0002-2746-6620, University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume47
Issue4
Pages676-699
Publication date2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417505000319
OpenAlexW2134014377
LanguageEN
Citations received10

In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 'culture' achieved the status of a truly global concept. We find discourses of 'culture' emerging to prominence in the German-speaking world during the second half of the eighteenth century (with the closely associated linguistic arenas of the Netherlands and Scandinavia rapidly following suit); in the English-speaking world starting in the first half of the nineteenth century; in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and South Asia starting in the second half of the nineteenth century; and just about everywhere else in the course of the twentieth century. 'Culture' began to circulate far beyond the European sites of its modern genesis, sometimes through the direct transfer of lexical items from Western European languages (e.g., Russian kulءtura; the use of kalcar in various South Asian languages); and more often through the construction of new translative equivalencies with preexisting words or concepts most often signifying purification, refinement, or improvement (e.g., Japanese bun-ka; Chinese wen-hua; Bangla and Hindi sanskriti; Urdu tamaddun

Ancient history · Art · Bengali · Framing (construction) · German · Hindi · Japanese culture · Linguistics · Literature · Urdu · World history · World War II · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Translation Studies and Practices

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