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‖ eidos, n. Anthropol.|ˈaɪdɒs|
[a. Gr. εἶδος form, type, idea.]
The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group. Cf. ethos n. 1.
1936G. Bateson Naven xv. 220 We may surmise that the characteristics of Iatmul culture which we are now studying are due to a standardisation of the cognitive aspects of the personality of the individuals. Such a standardisation and its expression in cultural behaviour I shall refer to as the eidos of a culture. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) vii. 293 The eidos of a culture would..be its appearance, its phenomena, all that about it which can be described explicitly. 1964C. Madge Society in Mind 13 In my usage, eidos, as a whole, means the predominant character of the whole stock of ideas available in a society or group. Social eidos then means that part of eidos which relates to social institutions and activities. 1970E. Leach Lévi-Strauss ii. 30 The binary oppositions: transformed/normal and Culture/Nature which are (by implication) internalised into the eidos of human culture everywhere. 1987R. Needham Counterpoints ix. 189 Bateson suggests that it is possible that these two patterns of thought are both represented in the eidos of all cultures. |