To Mead, the Samoan was an interesting man. Suppose the prevalent Samoan religion in the 1920s was a nature-oriented pantheism. Mead might have certainty that she was not the Samoan. But the Samoan might have seen Mead as part of himself. It is different matrices of space, time and identity in collision and competition.
Location is also variable.
It is a point with three coordinates in a Cartesian coordinate space. The emanation is going from here and arriving there. But, in our epoch, the one of warp speed journalism, there is something called Amazon dot com and it has a discrete location. Amazon dot com is where it is and is no place else. It is not at Amazing corn cob.