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Beginning of a New Culture Period

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The division of culture into periods has the one great advantage that it brings into focus clearly that our cultural patterns are determined in time as well as in space. Culture is not an absolute something that repeats itself for all peoples or native groups, although it possesses comparable structural qualities.

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Landheer, B. (1957). Beginning of a New Culture Period. In: Pause for Transition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9365-8_16

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