Meaning & use
transculturation
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The process by which a culture undergoes transformation through sustained contact with another culture, producing a new, blended cultural form.
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The novel explores transculturation among immigrant communities adapting to a new homeland.
Anthropologists studied transculturation in colonial societies where indigenous and European traditions merged.
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Coined by Cuban scholar Fernando Ortiz in 1940 to describe cultural exchange as a two-way process rather than one culture simply absorbing another.
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cultural fusionacculturation
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