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Transcription: [01:31:19]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
One can probably assume that through diffusion, major changes in cultures have come about.
[01:31:40]
There's a, uh. Perhaps the multiplicity of small elements lead to greater changes.
[01:32:00]
For instance, the development of civilization in the New World, can be ascribed to a multiplicity of ideas coming from the Old World, rather than from, from native internal development.
[01:32:33]
This leads to a, perhaps a basic point of theory, that I would certainly attempt to hold to, and that is that the, that diffusion is of great importance in any theory and any theoretical construct, of how cultures change, and of how cultures develop.
[01:33:13]
It cannot be used alone. Every, every change, even though it's based primarily on diffu -- even though it may be based entirely on diffusion, also includes an amount of -
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