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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1665-1200</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Tópicos del Seminario]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Tóp. Sem]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-1200</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Seminario de Estudios de la Significación]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1665-12002007000100009</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Fronteras de la cultura]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Culture Boundaries]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="fr"><![CDATA[Frontières de la culture]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[González Ochoa]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[César]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>17</numero>
<fpage>9</fpage>
<lpage>44</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-12002007000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-12002007000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-12002007000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: La frontera constituye un lugar de paso fundamental para la vida de las culturas; delimita que una cultura pertenece siempre a más de una. Aquí se considera la cultura, por un lado, como un conjunto de elementos articulados y jerarquizados y, por otro, como el conjunto de relaciones entre esos elementos. Los integrantes de una cultura la ven como la esfera de lo organizado, mientras que el entorno que la rodea (que no es un espacio caótico sino el de otras culturas) se considera como carente de orden y de organización. La característica más notoria de las culturas, además de su capacidad de organizarse y reproducirse a sí mismas, es el carácter dinámico, la asimetría y la ausencia de equilibrio. La frontera funciona como uno de los motores de ese dinamismo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: La frontière constitue un lieu de passage fondamental pour la vie des cultures ; elle délimite qu&#8217;une culture appartienne toujours à plus d&#8217;une. Ici on considère la culture, d&#8217;un côté, comme un ensemble d&#8217;éléments articulés et hiérarchisés et, de l&#8217;autre, comme l&#8217;ensemble des relations entre ces éléments. Les intégrants d&#8217;une culture la voit comme la sphère de ce qui est organisé, tandis que l&#8217;environnement qui l&#8217;entoure (qui n&#8217;est pas un espace chaotique mais celui d&#8217;autres cultures) est considéré comme manquant d&#8217;ordre et d&#8217;organisation. La caractéristique la plus évidente des cultures, en plus de leur capacité de s&#8217;organiser et de se reproduire elles-mêmes, est le caractère dynamique, l&#8217;asymétrie et l&#8217;absence d&#8217;équilibre. La frontière fonctionne comme l&#8217;un des moteurs de ce dynamisme.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="fr"><p><![CDATA[Résumé: The border constitutes a fundamental crossing place that is fundamental for the life of cultures. It delimits a culture from belonging to more than one. Here we consider culture, on the one hand, as a group of articulated and hierarchized elements, and, on the other, as a group of relationships between those elements. The members of a culture see it as a sphere of the organized, while the area around it (which is not a chaotic space but that of other cultures) is seen as lacking order and organization. The most well-known characteristic of cultures, besides their capacity to organize and reproduce themselves, is their dynamic character, asymmetry and the absence of equilibrium. The border works as one of the motors of that dynamism.]]></p></abstract>
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