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god that failed

noun

Etymology

Popularised by The God that Failed (1949), a volume of essays by ex-communists critiquing communism.

Definitions

  1. A notable let-down or flop

    A notable let-down or flop; a concept, product, or person that has failed to live up to very high expectations.

    • Still, reflexive anthropologists are right: the idea of a neatly tied-up ethnographic package, of a realist ethnography that was temporal, functionalist, and unmindful of inequality and power—that was certainly a god that failed.

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