The concept of contacts zones, as developed in Ulf 2009, employs differentiating factors to embed the actors involved in the transfers of goods and ideas in their cultural and socio-political environments. Power exerted between people who transfer goods and ideas and those who receive them, is decisive for how receptivity is shaped by their recipients. To discover where power is situated in the complex processes of intercultural interactions, this paper leads attention to the societal characteristics that have an impact on the cultural actors. Referring to the change from the Greek enoikismoi within the scattered settlements of the local population(s) in the hinterland between the Gulf of Taranto and Brindisi to the emergence of recognizable Greek settlements along the coastline from the 8th to the 7th century BC, the example of the feast is chosen to highlight the accompanying change of the scale of power and its exertion. In the terminology of contact zones, a dense contact zone lacking a dominant partner turns into a Middle Ground. From the definition of the various contact zones derives, that the receptivity changed from free adaptation of so far unknown cultural elements to their own intentions and needs to conscious and intentional misunderstandings of the other’s cultural forms and behaviour to gain advantage over the exchange partner. Thus power is a growing factor in their relationship and becomes the more important when the Middle Ground is replaced by a dense zone of contact where one partner is able to dominate. Thereby, it becomes clear that the relationships in cultural transfers are not tied up with ethnic conditions or cultural superiority and inferiority, but determined by the type of contact zones which in turn are characterized by the tools of power involved.

于2009年Ulf提出的接触区概念利用差异化因素将参与商品和思想转移的参与者嵌入其文化和社会政治环境中。转移商品和思想的人与接受商品和思想的人之间施加的权力，决定了接受者如何改变接受能力。为了发现力量在跨文化互动的复杂过程中所处的位置，本文将注意力转移到对文化参与者有影响的社会特征上。指希腊enoikismoi的变化在塔兰托湾和布林迪西之间腹地的本地居民分散居住区中，到公元前8至7世纪沿海岸线出现可识别的希腊居住区，以盛宴为例，以突出伴随着权力规模及其作用的变化。在接触区的术语中，缺少优势伙伴的密集接触区变成中间地带。从各种接触区的定义中得出，接受性从迄今为止未知文化元素的自由适应到其自身意图和需要的变化，到对他人文化形式和行为的有意识和故意的误解，从而获得了超越交换伙伴的优势。因此，力量已成为他们关系中日益增长的因素，当中间地带被一个伙伴能够控制的密集接触区代替时，力量变得尤为重要。从而，