"entropology" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1974, Ino Rossi -, The unconscious in culture",
          "text": "Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive \"entropology\" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.",
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          "text": "Thus, anthropology is 'entropology', the science of the running down of things.",
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          "text": "Both of these approaches began by challenging Lévi-Strauss's central conception of the relation of nature and culture, and of its role as the frame of his vision of anthropology as “entropology”, the reduction of culture to the status of an epiphenomenon of nature.",
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          "ref": "2012, Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Alterity and Narrative, page 158",
          "text": "The kind of agency I though I had—and the ethnocentric bias that led me to it—is symptomatic of the narrative motif of entropology. Make no mistake—entrolpology is real.",
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          "ref": "2013, Stephen I. Ternyik, Global Wave Energetics",
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