extelligence

Meaning

All the cultural capital that is available to people in the form of tribal legends, folklore, nursery rhymes, books, videotapes, CD-ROMs etc.

Translations

Folkloristik

λαϊκός πολιτισμός

λαογραφία

λαϊκός πολιτισμός/λαογραφία/λαογραφική παράδοση

λαογραφική παράδοση

Etymology

From ex- + intelligence (contrasted with knowledge carried within the brain, as if intelligence were derived from in). Coined by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in their book Figments of Reality (1997).

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