SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Franz Boas, Technology Transfer, Trans-Cultural Diffusion

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In 1940, he turned his attention to the diffusion of cultural material (including technologies): diffusion could be a complete transmission. 1: complications: in fact, kaolin was reported to be the key ingredient by travelers back from. China; by the early 18th century, abundant testimony by european jesuits who had worked in. North american southwest: pottery was already known to mexican and central american societies, archaeology reveals the full gamut of pottery evolution among the pueblo peoples, archaeology also reveals many signs of mexican influence and transfers. Given the context and the entirety of the evidence, the conclusion is that if pottery was not a transfer, it was at least a response to some knowledge of. Mexican pottery: therefore, pueblo pottery might have been a homegrown response to mexican pottery. They may lead him into conclusions that we may not come to today. 1670s: toy steamboat using a steam turbine (built by jesuits at the imperical court).

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