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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
Mm-hmm.

{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Depending on the attitudes of a culture, but even more important perhaps on the stage of development in which it is found.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
So then you think this kind of index of diffusionist capability increases - if indexes increase - as a culture becomes more complex?
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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
I think in general that's true. I think that may be a general rule of thumb that one can use. Of course a factor of tremendous importance is the degree of similarity of the donor and borrower cultures.
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I mean, if a very advanced civilized culture comes up against a relatively primitive one, there's relatively little acceptance of the advanced civilization by the lower one because they are just not capable of accepting the greater complexity of the things that are being presented to them.
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The Indians of North America, for instance - although there are many factors of their being decimated very rapidly - they didn't take over European culture in the same way that the more advanced cultures of the south did.
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I mean, Spanish culture was closer to meso-American culture than Spanish culture was to North American Indian culture. But this is an important aspect of the problem of how diffusion occurs, it seems to me.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
I think this brings us to method, doesn't it?
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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Method, and perhaps an attempt to refine this theoretical point of view in regard to actual cases, yes. Which is method, right?


Transcription Notes:
Am assuming the male speaker is Gordon Edholm and not William Sturtevant.