ABSTRACT
As societies newly integrated by global processes struggle to come to grips with them, they respond in various important ways. At times they have retreated into or revived their “traditional” culture, while in other cases they have abandoned “tradition” and dived headlong, voluntarily or not, into “modern” culture. More likely, though, they have made modifications and interpretationscreative and complex ones-based on memory of the past, experience of the present, and anticipation of the future. We are no longer witness to “traditional culture” (if we ever were), but to an acceleratingand increasingly self-conscious and intentionaldynamism of culture, in which “culture” itself becomes a resource or discourse in a cause or movement.
