Re: Seeking clarification/opinions on Peer Polity

Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:43:33 -0800 (PST)
mike shupp (ms44278@email.csun.edu)

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Kharyssa Rhodes wrote:
>
> What is the scoop? Is PPI indeed a type of WS analysis in denial of such? Or
> is it truly an academically separated theoretical approach to interaction?
> I'd appreciate any input.

Peer Polity Interaction is a modern (or renamed) version of Joseph
Caldwell's Cultural Interaction Sphere model for American Indian
Cultures. It predates modern WST by twenty or thirty years.

There's a paper on my web site which might be of interest.

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