lifeway
nounEtymology From Middle English *lif-wei (attested as lifes wege, lives wegas), from Old English līfweġ. By surface analysis, life + way.
1
One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.
Canada and US or puristic; otherwise archaic; Canada and US or puristic; otherwise archaic
- And as under colonialism, in most cases ‘traditional’ values and lifeways were treated as a barrier to economic growth and social progress, and were often purposefully eradicated.2017, Jason Hickel, “Neoliberalism Comes Home”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
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