anathemic

adj

1. anathematic

   “In such places, the indigenous people sometimes need to thank, however anathemic this might be, some of the earliest Europeans to visit them, who recorded at great length oral traditions of all kinds, particularly belief systems, traditional knowledge, kinship systems and genealogies, and myths.”

   “The idea that social psychological science should be grounded in agent accounts will be treated by many practitioners as anathemic to the notion of scientific analysis.”