cultural contact

is a fantastic reification. There is contact, but it is not between the abstraction of european culture and the abstraction of african tribe to form a third abstraction, rather, contact is between human beings, european and african, and it takes place within a definite structural arrangement.

To me this seems a fantastic reification of abstractions. European culture is an abstraction and so is the culture of an African tribe. I find it fantastic to imagine these two abstractions coming into contact and by an act of generation producing a third abstraction. There is contact, but it is between human beings, European and African, and it takes place within a definite structural arrangement.(R-Brown in Lowie 1942).

is always a matter of receiving and adapting to foreign cultural elements.

Hirano (1988: 160) argues that for the Japanese international cultural contacts have always meant receiving and adapting to foreign cultural elements.

is an event whereby, for some time after the encounter, the two parties in question will behave in an exploratory or almost random manner, each retaining its own norms and not yet developing any special adjustments to the situation of contact.

where a native population is brought for the first time in contact with Europeans-- that, for some time after the shift, the two parties to such a situation will behave in an exploratory or almost random manner, each retaining its own norms and not yet developing any special adjustments to the situation of contact' (Bateson Steps 93). MORALS -[there is a time when you don't know what your moral are because you are still finding them vis-a-vis these new partners -think in this respect of Benedict and her distinction between shame and guilt]

cultural contact, n.All

cultural contact