Ward Goodenough, whose contributions to anthropological linguistics and cognitive anthropology influenced all of us who followed in his footsteps, died a week ago. You can read his obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer, or see tributes from Rex at Savage Minds and Mark Liberman at Language Log. I didn’t know Goodenough, although I do know some of his students, so I’ll let others speak about his influence. New students in the field will probably never hear of him, alas, except perhaps through his now-famous definition of culture as “the things one needs to know in order to meet the standards of others” (1981: 50). I’d also direct you to his short monograph, Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology
Goodenough, Ward Hunt. 1970. Description and comparison in cultural anthropology. Chicago: Aldine.
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