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The Neoteric Society*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Nancie L. Gonzalez
Nancie L. Gonzalez
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University of Iowa
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In 1959, when struggling to characterize the Black Carib community in which I had recently done fieldwork, I coined the word ‘neoteric’ to refer to societies which are neither primitive nor peasant, in which traditions are absent or very shallow, and which may be said to have arisen only recently in time. I picked the word from Roget's Thesaurus, selecting it because it seemed a good, short, catchy synonym for ‘new’.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1970, pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1970

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