AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iphone 6, Snowmobile, Hybridity
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Recombining from known knowledge to produce a new object. Eg. the iphone 6 coming after the iphone 5. Diffusion or borrowing: tobacco produced in the new world diffuses to europe in the 15th century. People borrow things social acceptance adapt to fit local cultures. Higher chance of success if a person of authority approves and timing coincides. People who are different races have babies, and create a new race. Eg. mule (offspring of a male donkey and female horse: no culture is a pure authentic culture. Every culture has been mixed , or have been borrowed from other cultures. Loss of cultural through culture contact or colonial domination. Destruction of tribal cultures indigenous peoples are allowed to follow their own laws. If the culture doesn"t adapt, it"s of no use to people: culture is never bounded (self-contained) There"s a lot of interconnections between cultures: not homogeneous (not the same within)
