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Alfred L. Kroeber (1876-1960) Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America Berkeley, University of California Press, 1939.
"While it is true that cultures are rooted in nature, and can therefore never be completely understood except that with reference to that piece of nature in which they occur, they are no more produced by that nature than a plant is produced or caused by the soil in which it is rooted. The immediate causes of cultural phenomena are other cultural phenomena." (Kroeber 1939:3) |