Distributed agency within intersecting ecological, social, and scientific processes
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Societies emerge as changing alignments of social groups, segments, and classes, without either fixed boundaries or stable internal constitutions... Therefore, instead of assuming transgenerational continuity, institutional stability, and normative consensus, we must treat these as problematic. We need to understand such characteristics historically, to note the conditions for their emergence, maintenance and abrogation. (Wolf 1982, p. 387)
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