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A cultural area or '''culture area''' is a Region ( Area ) with one relatively Homogeneous human activity or complex of activities ( Culture ). These areas are primarily geographical, not historical (but see below), and they are not considered equivalent to '' Kulturkreis '' (Culture circles). DEVELOPMENT A culture area is now an outdated concept in and Alfred Kroeber further developed the concept on the premise that they represent long-standing cultural divisions.Wissler, Clark (ed.) (1975) ''Societies of the Plains Indians'' AMS Press, New York, ISBN 0-404-11918-2 , Reprint of v. 11 of ''Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History'', published in 13 pts. from 1912 to 1916.Kroeber, Alfred L. (1939) ''Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America'' University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.Kroeber, Alfred L. "The Cultural Area and Age Area Concepts of Clark Wissler" In Rice, Stuart A. (ed.) (1931) ''Methods in Social Science'' pp. 248-265. University of Chicago Press, Chicago; MUSIC A music area is a cultural area defined according to musical activity, and may or may not conflict with the cultural areas assigned to a given region. Musics divides the world into three large music areas, each containing a "cultivated" or Classical Music s "that are obviously its most complex musical forms," with, nearby, Folk styles which interact with the cultivated, and, on the perimeter, Primitive styles:
However, he then adds that "the world-wide development of music must have been a unified process in which all peoples participated," and that one finds similar tunes and traits in puzzlingly isolated or separated locations throughout the world. REFERENCES |
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