imponderabilia

Definitions

Anthropology: "...a series of phenomena of great importance which cannot possibly be recorded by questioning or computing documents, but have to be observed in their full actuality....such things as the routine of a man's working day, the details of his care of the body, of the manner of taking food and preparing it..."

A term used by Bronislaw Malinowski in his book called 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific'

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(Noun) objects that defy understanding