| LC control no. | sh 98008087 |
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| LC classification | HM1272 |
| Topical heading | Cultural fusion |
| Variant(s) | Cultural hybridity Culture fusion Fusion, Cultural Hybridism (Social sciences) Hybridity (Social sciences) Transculturalism Transculturation |
| See also | Cultural relations Acculturation Assimilation (Sociology) Cultural pluralism Ethnicity Multiculturalism |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on the blending of elements from two or more cultures, often producing a distinctive successor culture. Works on the condition in which numerous distinct ethnic, religious, or cultural groups coexist within one society are entered under Cultural pluralism. Works on policies or programs that foster the preservation of different cultural identities, including customs, languages, and beliefs, within a unified society such as a state or nation, are entered under Multiculturalism. |
| Subject example tracing | Notes under Multiculturalism; Cultural pluralism |
| Found in | Barfield, T. Dict. of anthropology (under Acculturation: "cultural fusion, whereby two cultures may exchange enough elements to produce a distinctive successor culture") Castens, A. Cultural contact and cultural change ("cultural fusion, a new synthesis of cultural elements differing from both precontact cultures") Google search, Mar. 19, 2008 (cultural fusion; culture fusion; hybridity) LC database, Apr. 11, 2008 (hybridity; cultural fusion) Fouad Laroui, écrivain transculturel, 2021: p. 4 of cover (the idea of transculturalism clearly defines Fouad Laroui, from the presence of France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Morocco in his background and as influences forming his identity) Onghena, Yolanda. Transculturalism and relation identity, in Quaderns de la Mediterrània, v. 10, viewed online Oct. 4, 2022: p. 182 (In recent times, we have seen, at first hesitant but increasingly insistent, the (re)appearance of the word "transcultural", which attempts to recognise intercultural dynamics as inherent in any cultural interaction or exchange) p. 183 (Transculturation is a process the elements of which are altered and from which a new, composite and complex reality emerges; to describe this process, the Latinate word transcultural provides us with a term that does not suggest the idea of one culture having to lean towards another, but of a transition between two cultures, both active and participating parties, both contributing in their own ways, cooperating in the advent of a new civilisation reality) Wikipedia, Oct. 4, 2022 (transculturalism; In 1940, transculturalism was originally defined by Fernando Ortiz, a Cuban scholar; he defined transculturalism as the synthesis of two phases occurring simultaneously, one being a deculturalization of the past with a métissage (see métis, as in the Métis population of Canada and the United States) with the present, which further means the "reinventing of the new common culture"; such reinvention of a new common culture is in turn based on the meeting and intermingling of different peoples and cultures) Oxford research encyclopedia of communication, via WWW, Mar. 9, 2023: Cultural Fusion Theory (Cultural fusion is the process of integrating new information and generating new cultural forms) |
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