RE: memetics-digest V1 #1300

From: Vincent Campbell (VCampbell@dmu.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 05 Mar 2003 - 15:21:14 GMT

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    Thanks for that, sounds like an important work for artefact-meme people (or person- is it just me ;-( ?).

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Lawrence DeBivort
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 1:22 PM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: RE: memetics-digest V1 #1300
    >
    > MOTEL OF THE MYSTERIES, David Macaulay. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1979,
    > for
    > those who are not yet familiar with this gem of a classic on the
    > interpretation of artifacts for which user knowledge is no longer
    > available.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Lawry
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > > Of Wade T. Smith
    > > Sent: Tue, March 04, 2003 7:14 AM
    > > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1300
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 09:19 PM, memetics-digest wrote:
    > >
    > > > But if you were talking about an artifact such as a clay bowl or a
    > > > stone ax
    > > > head, for example, and you went out and gathered the same kind of clay
    > > > and
    > > > formed that clay in the same way and decorated it with the same
    > > > designs and
    > > > fired it at the same temperature, you would have learned a thing or
    > two
    > > > about how the tribe accomplished the task themselves.
    > >
    > > 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
    > >
    > >
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