Practice question · Estimate
By 1952, Kroeber and Kluckhohn had catalogued how many competing definitions of "culture"? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 300.
Hints
- More than a hundred, well short of three hundred.
- The famous count is 164.
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164 (answers within ±25 count)
Why
164 definitions, evidence of a concept so successful that everyone needed it and no one could pin it down. The count itself became part of the discipline’s folklore.
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