Kulturkreis
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German
Etymology
Kultur (“culture”) + Kreis (“circle”)
Pronunciation
Noun
Kulturkreis m (strong, genitive Kulturkreises, plural Kulturkreise)
- A cultural sphere or zone.
- 1843, Heinrich Berghaus, Grundriss der Geographie, page 1002:
- Dadurch sind alle diese Völkerschaften, die überdem nur durch Dialekt-Verschiedenheit der Sprache getrennt sind, in einen Kulturkreis getreten, der von Einem Mittelpunkt die Gemeinschaft von National-Interessen erstrebt hat.
- All of these peoples, which are moreover divided only by dialectal differences of language, have thus entered into a cultural sphere that has aspired to the commonality of national interests from a single central point.
- 2011, Carsten Grau, Karsten Markwardt, Internationale Verträge, →ISBN, page 69:
- Auch anhand des Zeitfaktors lässt sich der asiatische Kulturkreis als kollektivistisch charakterisieren […]
- The Asian cultural sphere can also be characterised as collectivist based on the factor of time
- (anthropology, dated) In the theory of the Kulturkreis school, a complex of related cultural traits believed to have historically diffused together across different parts of the world.
Declension
Declension of Kulturkreis
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Kulturkreis | die | Kulturkreise |
| genitive | eines | des | Kulturkreises | der | Kulturkreise |
| dative | einem | dem | Kulturkreis, Kulturkreise1 | den | Kulturkreisen |
| accusative | einen | den | Kulturkreis | die | Kulturkreise |
1Now rare, see notes.
Further reading
- “Kulturkreis” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache