A Possible Focus of Asiatic Influence in the Late Classic Cultures of Mesoamerica

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ID7538684
AuthorsGordon F Ekholm (American Museum of Natural History, corresponding author)
Year1953
Volume9
Pages72-97
Publication date1953-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemoirs of the Society for American Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0081-1300 • E-ISSN: 2330-2275
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0081130000001209
OpenAlexW2810181306
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited59

There is a Growing trend, I believe, for American archaeologists to look beyond the limits of their specialized and local areas of research and to take more interest in some of the basic problems of culture history — of the processes of origin and growth of cultures and civilizations. The Americanist looks at these problems in terms of the American Indian cultures, but in doing so, to be logically consistent, he must make some judgment on the old question as to whether or not influences from the civilizations of Asia had anything to do with the growth of those in America. This problem, or what turns out to be a great series of problems when one looks into it at all, is of great practical and theoretical interest, and will, I am convinced, receive much attention in future years. Such attention is somewhat slow in coming, however, because of the uncompromisingly isolationist point of view held up to now by most Americanists and reflected in the almost complete lack of research on the problems of Asiatic-American cultural relationships

Ancient history · Archaeology · Asian studies · China · Culture of the United States · Environmental ethics · Focus (optics · Genealogy · Mesoamerica · Political science · Sociology · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy

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