3.  Integration

 

Integration: Core Values and Sovereignty Pluralism:  Core Values Maintained Assimilation: Core Values Altered
Sovereignty

1. Incorporation

e.g., Navajo sheep and silver work, American Indian corn and potatoes by Europeans, and Japanese and American Baseball

2. Traditionalism

e.g., changing the "style" without changing the "message," incorporation of chain saws for stone axes.  A way to resist colonialism, while maintaining core values, also called "resistance."

3. Adaptation

e.g., Horse and gun among Plains Indians, and American "fast food" in Third World countries

 

Sovereignty 4.  Schismogenesis: symmetrical or complementary

e.g., Cold War and Rich/Poor Nations (values maintained but society destroyed)

 
Non-Sovereignty, seeking Sovereignty  

5. Revitalization (strive to formulate new values or revive old values)

e.g., Ghost Dance, American Revolution, and Christianity

Non-Sovereignty

6. Compartmentalization

e.g., Hopi Catholicism and Kiva Religion, and Jewish Practices in many European countries

7. Syncretism

e.g., Peyote Religion and Virgin of Guadalupe

Non-Sovereignty  

8. Replacement

e.g., Tipi for House and Christian missionary endeavors in Africa, Asia and the Americas 

Non-Sovereignty  

9. Disintegration

e.g., "steel axes" among the Yir-Yorant and Cultural Genocide

10. Genocide: culturally and biologically 

 

 

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