Showing papers on "Culture change published in 1976"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the spatial, temporal, linguistic, and cultural factors that mediate between the various types of guests and the host country, and examine adaptive strategies that facilitate economic and socio-cultural interaction in a West Mexican resort community, Puerto Vallarta.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized seven articles presented at the 1975 meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, in a symposium entitled Tourism and Culture Change, focusing on the Traveler per se; the diverse impacts of tourism upon cultures in Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), the island of Myconos (Greece) and among the Mamainde Indians (Mato Grosso, Brazil); and the role and administration of the Polynesian Cultural Center (Hawaii) as an "ethnic model" and as a laboratory of cultural conservation.
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TL;DR: In this article, three methodologies within the same body of theory, archeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography, are used cooperatively to reconstruct the cultural history of Hispanic Northern New Mexico.
Abstract: Archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography—three methodologies within the same body of theory—can be used cooperatively to reconstruct the cultural history of Hispanic Northern New Mexico. The leads suggested for the investigation of Hispanic culture are discussed under the interrelated headings of ecology, social organization, and trade. Other benefits of intensive joint work include distinguishing ideal from real culture and testing theories of culture change. The approach outlined could serve as a model for the investigation of other historical traditions in the same or other parts of the world.
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TL;DR: Salamone et al. as discussed by the authors found that small ethnically-related adjacent groups view themselves as quite distinct from their neighbors and tend to accentuate these perceived differences, which greatly influences their diverse responses to similar changes in social environment, such as the coming of Christian missionaries.
Abstract: Small ethnically-related adjacent groups view themselves as quite distinct from their neighbors — and tend to accentuate these perceived differences. This greatly influences their diverse responses to similar changes in social environment, such as the coming of Christian missionaries. Citing his study of two such adjacent groups in northern Nigeria, Professor Salamone suggests that the chosen approach to a specific people can be facilitated by recognizing that culture change, including conversion, involves a learning process.
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TL;DR: McKinney as discussed by the authors pointed out that the rejection of a literacy program can be a devastating experience for a western missionary, and that by studying the cultural structure (particularly the religious structure), and by applying the established principles of culture change, we can often predict and forestall such potential rejection.
Abstract: Coming as he or she does, from a culture heavily dependent on print media, the western missionary finds the rejection of a literacy program a devastating experience. Missionary McKinney reminds us that by studying the cultural structure (particularly the religious structure), and by applying the established principles of culture change, we can often predict and forestall such potential rejection. Her article also includes suggestive lists of practical factors that may lead to acceptance or rejection of literacy programs.
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