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(Catholicism, followed by Protestantism). The nation of Australia is predicated on these ideas and so we can say that Australia (as a national idea) is a ‘Western’ society, even if the population comes from all over the planet. ‘Traditional’ in the Australian
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Juergen Bohnemeyer via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 30 May 2025 at 12:38</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>JOO Ian <joo@res.otaru-uc.ac.jp>, Lingtyp Linguistics Typology <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] Two terminological quandaries for the price of one: 'traditional' and 'non-Western' cultures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear Ian – I doubt Americans, Australians, Brazilians, etc., would appreciate being called ‘European’, yet their majority cultures/societies are ‘Western’ (i.e., of European
descent).</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">That was the easier of your two questions. The first one is trickier. I agree with you in principle that it would be appropriate to extend the concept of indigeneity to
any communities that aren’t colonial or descendant from colonizers. The problem is that the descent part of that definition requires some sort of temporal horizon, or some other framing perspective. Bantu people colonized much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Tupians
large swaths of the Amazon. Do we therefore treat Bantu and Tupian cultures as non-indigenous? I think it depends on the context – there is likely no universally valid definition.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Best – Juergen</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Juergen Bohnemeyer (He/Him)<br>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of JOO Ian via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 22:23<br>
<b>To: </b>Lingtyp Linguistics Typology <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] Two terminological quandaries for the price of one: 'traditional' and 'non-Western' cultures</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;word-break:break-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Juergen,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.0pt;word-break:break-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By ‘indigenous’, I mean pragmatically that the presence of the community in the area they inhabit is not an immediate
result of European colonization.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>European</b> colonization specifically, and not colonization by other forces (such as the Han colonization of Taiwan)?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:47.0pt;word-break:break-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">‘(Non-)Western cultures/societies’: By this I mean any cultures/societies of (non-)European origin/descent.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;word-break:break-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Why not just call them European?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;word-break:break-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From Otaru,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;word-break:break-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ian</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[Lingtyp] Two terminological quandaries for the price of one: 'traditional' and 'non-Western' cultures</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear all – I really need your help with this! I’ve been struggling for quite some time now with the terms ‘traditional culture/society’ and ‘(non-)Western culture/society’. Both concepts play
significant roles in my work, but both labels seem problematic. I’m looking for better alternatives. (If you want to call this query an exercise in political correctness, I would plead guilty to the charge. I do try to avoid offending people unintentionally.)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Let me briefly try to explicate the concepts that I have been using these labels for:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">‘Traditional cultures/societies’: Small-scale indigenous communities practicing predominantly non-industrial (or pre-industrial) modes of production in non-urban settings. By ‘small-scale’,
I mean that stratification is predominantly in terms of age and gender, division of labor is low, and offices of power are largely non-hereditary. By ‘indigenous’, I mean pragmatically that the presence of the community in the area they inhabit is not an immediate
result of European colonization. And the concept needs to be flexible enough to allow for the fact that the overwhelming majority of such communities are part of larger majority societies, are in more or less intensive contact with them, are under pressure
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">I suspect that objections to the label ‘traditional’ may be the result of associating that label with Social Darwinism. At the same time, I find the label acceptable to the extent that one
accepts that modes of production, while not following a strict developmental sequence, are not distributed randomly throughout human history either, particularly in the sense that industrialization did not take place prior to the Industrial Revolution. So
what I’m looking for is a label that occupies the sweet spot between Social Darwinism and completely ahistoric and non-evolutionary perspectives of social organization.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">The sexiest currently available alternative to ‘traditional’ is ‘non-WEIRD’, in the Heinrich-et-al.-(2010) sense of ‘WEIRD’ (Western educated industrialized rich democratic). I don’t personally
mind using that term, but it is awfully vague. There are many developing nations that I would not consider WEIRD (they may check neither of the five definitional properties), but that do not globally fit the ‘traditional’ concept either.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">‘(Non-)Western cultures/societies’: By this I mean any cultures/societies of (non-)European origin/descent. The problem with the label ‘Western’ is the very misleading geographic association
with the Western hemisphere: the vast majority of Europe isn’t even part of the Western hemisphere, and there are ‘Western’ societies (societies of European descent) outside Europe *<b>and</b>* outside the Western hemisphere, *<b>and</b>* of course there are
many ‘non-Western’ cultures in the Western hemisphere. I’m well aware that the etymology of this use of ‘Western’ has little to do with the model of the geographic hemispheres, but my sense is that people make the association whether it belongs there or not
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">I suspect the best solution to the second problem is to just talk about ‘cultures/societies of (non-)European origin/descent’. That’s a mouthful, but sooner or later somebody will coin a handy
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMU Serif"">Anyway, many thanks in advance for your help! – Juergen</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Juergen Bohnemeyer (He/Him)<br>
Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
University at Buffalo <br>
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