Interesting! It has been acknowledged for a number of years that classification
in many subject areas is a culturally specific process. Perhaps we are
starting to unearth areas where the "Anglo American" element in the old title
was actually a useful cultural deffinition to the approach taken in the
production of headings for certain items? In the same way that the language of
description was English?
Happy days!
Keith
Keith V. Trickey
Liverpool Business School
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Thomas said:
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>Authorized Access Point: Bible. Genesis
>Variant Access Point: Genesis (Book of the Bible)
But Genesis was in the Torah centuries before it was in the Christian
Bible, and is recognized in Islam. If we are revising these headings,
shouldn't we attempt to be more faith neutral?
Genesis (Pentateuch)?
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