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Vinay Lal, among many other critics of western European historicism beside Foucault, has commented on such language, invented to displace humanity and 'civilization' and political sophistication of any sort in 'the other'.
One humorous, memorable quote in his survey of British India encapsulates the problem for anyone struggling to discard the yoke of the, one, 'progressive' value system:
What's the difference between anthropology and sociology? Sociology is when you study your own people. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
That I learned about by reading Bernal, vol. II-III, lengthy application of historical linguistics to documentary artifacts of afro-asiatic languages. d<->t is common; a<->o vowels, too, (I forget the terminology off-hand) introduced a few dramatic lexical errors and transliterations in cognates, e.g. psyche.
< sigh >
return of "interdisciplinary study" in the '80s, "unlearning" a crazy-ass canon of besserwissen: "animals behave to maximize the number of gene copies for the future generation" is not "group selection."
Like I said, neologism is rife. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
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