Meaning of anatopism | Babel Free

Definitions

A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.

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Equivalents

Examples

“A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.”

“[…] and can find⟳ no associates in size at a less distance than two centuries; and in arranging which the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order⟳ to avoid⟳ an anatopism.”

“There is no anachronism in putting them together; it is a sort⟳ of anatopism rather; the painter has placed within our view⟳ two scenes which no mortal eye could have⟳ witnessed at the same time.”

“It is a remarkable fact that, so far as I can judge⟳, no case of local inconsistency, not a single anatopism, can be brought home to the Iliad.”

“Much of the literature on the 'Japanese Miracle' (as well as on that vast anatopism, the transfer⟳ of Japanese recipes to Western countries) expatiates on […]”

“[…] the semiotic mechanism of reorganizing space in this manner as an anatopism. Anatopism renders places such as Bali equivalents of other places […]”

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