From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue 04 Mar 2003 - 15:36:12 GMT
Yup, for sure, and anthropologists do things like that, all the time.
But they are not making one _anew_, in the cultural context that made that
artifact _anew_. They are _merely_ replicating.
Wade
Isn't replicating what memetics is supposed to be about? What information
do you think is being passed along by artifacts?
Grant
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