...(London: Routledge, 1992). According to Pratt, "Ethnographers have used [the term transculturation] to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture," p. 6. 33 See Limon, Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems, p. 58. 34 See Raymond Williams, "Border Trilogy":...

...indigenous resistance in the Andes. According to Mary Louise Pratt, transculturation has been used "to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture" (Pratt 1992, 6). When I offered transculturation as a model for understanding /, Rigoberta Menchu's...

...second concept is transculturation as a process, in Mary Louise Pratt's words, "how subordinated and marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture."13 Put differently, transculturation is "a phenomenon of the contact zone" which Pratt defined...

...Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation (New York: Routledge, 1992). 39 Pratt, Imperial Eyes 4. and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture."40 All of these border theorists share the notion that they are pursuing a liberationist practice,...

...Louise Pratt's Imperial Eyes. According to Pratt, "Ethnographers have used [the term transculturation] to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture" (6). See also Gustavo Perez Firmat's The Cuban Condition and Silvia Spitta's Between Two Waters. For...

...essentialist than Richard White's. For example, Pratt argues that "transculturation" occurs in contact zones: "Subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture" (6). Sometimes such transculturation takes the form of "autoethnography," in which colonized subjects...

...phenomenon of the contact zone', as Mary Louise Pratt puts it. The term has been used by ethnographers to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture (eg Taussig 1993). The word was coined in the 1 940s by Cuban sociologist Fernando Ortiz ( 1 978) in...

...ethnography emphasizes the agency of the colonized: "Ethnographers have used this term [transculturation] to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. While subjugated peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine...

...is a phenomenon and characterization of the contact zone. Transculturation, according to Pratt, is "how subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture" (6). From a postcolonial perspective, the discursive clash between Rammohun Roy and Marshman emanates...

...Mary Louise Pratt five decades later for a different context as a process of "how subordinated and marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture."37 However, important as the emphasis on the perspective and the agency of subordinated, marginal,...