Dominant, Residual, and Emergent

focalized the development of culture through the tripartite lens of what he terms the dominant, the residual, and the emergent. He defines the dominant in cultural evolution in the following manner: "In what I have called 'epochal' analysis, a cultural process is seized as a cultural system, with determinate dominant features: feudal culture or bourgeois culture or a transition from one to another. This emphasis on dominant and definitive lineaments and features is important and often, in practice, quite effective."l The residual part of this evolution "has been formed in the past, but it is still active in the cultural process, not only and often not at all an 1

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  Open Access•Edwin Aguilar, Jose Eloy et al.•Latin American Research Review•1996

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