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Culture diffusion
topic of seminar
By KEN DORSEY
Reporter
A seminar entitled “The Transfer
and Transformation of Ideas and
Material Culture” is being sponsored
by the College of Geosciences and
the College of Liberal Arts and will
last for three days.
The conference, which has taken
18 months to organize, will examine
different aspects of diffusion and
will begin at 2 p.m. today in 501
Rudder Tower.
“There's been an argument over
whether culture traits, ideas and ac
tual technologies are diffused or
whether they are invented time and
time again,” said Peter Hugill, who
will speak Friday on technology dif
fusion in the world automobile in
dustry.
Diffusion has always been a major
theme in cultural geography and to
a lesser extent in anthropology, Hu
gill, A&M associate professor of ge
ology, said.
“Historians have discovered diff u
sion for the first time," he said.
Through this increase in int®
the social science geologists btl
fluenced the educationalpeopltj
sociologists into believing diff
can be predicted, Hugill said.
“If you know what causest
sion, you should be ableloprt|
it,” he said. “Therefore, if you *
to introduce a particular innont
by studying the causes of ~
you can know how to introduaj
innovation the right way andn
more successful.”
Other speakers include
Wagner who wrote a bookouil
the course that cultural ge
has taken during the past20ye®|
Wagner is interested in re«
ning this course, Hugill said..y|
well-known historian William I
eill w ill le cture on the history of j
fusion.
The seminar is divided into if
pans: Diffusion and Prehistory;,
be the topic today; Diffusion,]
I listory and Theory will be disc
Friday; and Methods and Moddsl
Diffusion will he discussed Satutn
Last cut this weekend
By TRENT LEOPOLD
Staff Writer
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'The 1988 campaign begins tomorrow. !
Disaster declaration sought
by state for Harris County
United Press International
AUSTIN — The state requested
Wednesday that Harris County be
added to a federal disaster dec lara
tion already approved for residents
of flood-damaged San Patricio
County.
Robert Lansford, state coordina
tor for the Division of Emergency
Management, said the recjuest would
cover severe flooding and tornadoes
that struck Harris County during
late October.
The San Patricio declaration was
approved Oct. 80 for flooding that
occurred in South Texas Oct. 19-20.
“If the federal government ap
proves the request we’ll have saved
several steps in the request process,
and Harris County will receive aid
sooner than if he had requested a
separate declaration,” said Lansford.
The second and last cut for this
year’s bonf ire will be this weekend at
the cutting site in Carlos.
Scott Strom, head redpot, said
Wednesday night the ground is now
dry enough to get equipment into
the site and move the wood to Dun
can Field.
“The weather has really set is
back this year, but if we can get a lot
of people out to the site this week
end we can get caught up and get
the wood out of Carlos,” Strom said.
He said most of the effort this
weekend will be directed toward
moving about 35 loads of wood from
Carlos to Texas A&M.
“A lot of wood is on the ground
right now,” Strom said. “We need to
direct most of our effort toward
moving rather than cutting.”
This weekend’s cut is mandatory
for Corps members, and Strom said
he expects a crowd at the site.
“We expect quite a few peoples
weekend," Strom said. “Althoi
the cut is mandatory for
members we also expect ipiiteaff
civilians to show up."
He saitl the cut will begin al*
7:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday,i
the ( tit should last until alxiutij
p.m. both days.
“ Fhe next big event willbei
starting Nov. 18,” Strom said,
push begins, the actual Ixintireif
dally gets started and the firef
to take shape."
Strom said workers are needed:!
make the 75th-anniversary
successful.
“'The record rains in Octoberh
really set us back and we need pel
pie to help us get back on sdmkl
especially this weekend," he sail
“Although the st.u k doesn’toffioll
get started until Nov. 18, whenesef
anyone wants to work theycancois
out, and we will gel them started J
the stack.”
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