Antedating of "Ethnocentric"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Sep 23 00:33:40 UTC 2008

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ethnocentric (OED 1900)

1899 _Amer. Anthropologist_ July 433 (JSTOR)  As the perception of relation proceeds, the lowly egocentric system becomes ethnocentric and then democentric.


Fred Shapiro

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