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Since the days of franz boas, anthropologists who study processes of cultural borrowing have emphasized that ...

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The answer is; borrowing cultural forms and practices from elsewhere always involve borrowing with modification. People never adopt blindly but always adapt what they borrow for local purposes. Putting this another way, people rarely accepted ideas, practices, or objects from somewhere else without indigenising them.

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