DiscussionThe Making of Culture Repertoire and the Role of Transfer
Table of contents
- 1.Purpose of this Paper
- 2.The Culture Repertoire
- 3.The Two Aspects of Organization of Life
- 4.The Making of Repertoire
- 5.The Acceptance of Repertoire
- 6.The Procedures for Making Repertoire: Invention and Import
- 7.The Flow of Import
- 8.From "Import" to "Transfer"
- 9.The Nature of the Transferred Goods
- 10.The Causes of Import and the Trajectory of Transfer
- 11.The Labor of Agents as Items of Transferred Repertoire
- 12.To Sum Up
- Acknowlegments
- References
- Address for correspondence
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a set of hypotheses for handling the relations between the processes and procedures involved with the making of repertoire on the one hand, and import and transfer on the other. Beyond the attempt itself, that is to draft links and interdependencies between these two phenomena, I am interested in drawing the attention of people interested in procedures and products of transfer, for example translation theory in its established sense, to the socio-cultural juncture where transfer plays a role. This role sometimes becomes a major one for the fate of societies and cultures; but even at times when it is a minor one, it is nonetheless present and indispensable. Therefore it deserves discussion in terms of culture research.