Re: More thoughts on Culture and World Systems

OK, what Luke writes seems acceptable at first glance at least - with a
small amencdxment tht I hope Luke can accept.
Like ethnicity culture is composed of many strands, and it/they change
over time.
More than that, one [individual,group, etc] selects from among the strands
to ''use'' the ones that are most ''useful'' st this time and place.
at anotehr time & place another set meets that need. There may be
limitations in THIS Culture of what can be used/stressed, thogh it is also
possible to ADD/REVISE ethnic/cluural features to fit the occasion/need.
And that culture may have a strucure is quite compatible with what
cultural anthropologists hav to say about it, which is many different
things they say.

enough for now, I have to - as all of you - transmit on other wave lengths
too.
gunder frank
 




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