Nick Gessler's comment on dynamical systems

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Maximum level `second' to Nick Gessler's comments on looking beyond
linear causal theories into interactive, dynamical systems. It may be
a bit beyond most of our collegial wisdom . . . but I would strongly
recommend that anyone who wants a theoretically sound introduction to
the approach read Neil MacKinnon's 1995 "Symbolic Interaction as Affect
Control" by SUNY press. It is everything an Anthropologist should have
written a decade ago . . . that is, if we hadn't gotten sidetracked on
political correctness and overspecialization.

John O'Brien
Youngstown, Ohio

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