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noun
Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh1- Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h1-sḱé-ti Proto-Italic *gnāskōrder. Latin nāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin nātūralbor. Old French naturebor. Middle English nature English nature Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kwélh1eti Proto-Italic *kwelō Latin colō ▲ Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English natureculture Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature + culture.
