From the Glossary of Marimba Ani’s “Yurugu: An African-Centered critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior”
“The logos of a culture, within which its various aspects cohere. It is the developmental germ/seed of a culture. It is the cultural essence, the ideological core, the matrix of a cultural entity which must be identified in order to make sense of the collective creations of its members.“
Source: http://www.africawithin.com/ani/excerpt_chap1.htm
The utility of this definition relates to terms akin to Originalism. Marimba Ani’s book explores the European’s Asili, which I call “Occidentalism.”
