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Culture
ConceptImagined simultaneity
People can imagine distant lives and events as unfolding alongside their own in shared time.
ConceptImagined community
An imagined community involves a sense of shared membership among people who cannot all know one another personally.
VocabularyVernacular print-language
A vernacular print-language is a written medium based on languages used by wider populations rather than solely a learned elite language.
ConceptGeographical constraints
Terrain, climate and resources shape opportunities and constraints for societies.
VocabularyZiggurat
A monumental stepped structure associated with temples in ancient Mesopotamia.
VocabularyFunerary art
Funerary art is art made for contexts connected with death, burial or remembrance.
VocabularyPaleolithic
The Paleolithic is the earlier Stone Age, associated with stone-tool traditions and predominantly foraging lifeways.
VocabularyPrint capitalism
In Anderson’s account, commercial print production connects markets for texts with the formation of shared reading publics.
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