...'transculturated' here is important. She points out that ethnographers use it to describe how subordinated groups select and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant culture. In her book, she uses 'transculturation' to describe the process of inter-cultural negotiation...

...domination and subordination . . ." (4). Transculturation, a concept borrowed from ethnography, describes "how subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture" (6). 44. See, for example, Ovid Demaris, Poso del Mundo: Inside the Mexican-American Border: From Tijuana...

...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...

...similar to what Mary Louise Pratt terms transculturation. She defines this term as the process whereby "subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture."4 The examples of Chinese perceptions of George Washington, Liang Qichao's views of the Chinese...

...Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992): "Ethnographers have used this term to describe how subordinated or marginal groups...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. While subjugated peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine...

...to the index and merits only five lines of small print in a note. Pratt defines the term as serving 'to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture' — which falls short of Ortiz's more dynamic conception, though her further elucidation of the term...

...transculturation at work. This is the process of selection and invention which occurs in contact zones, where subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. These selections are sutured to local traditions and circumstances to produce quite different cultural...

...protection of international agencies. 9. "Ethnographers have used this term to describe how subordinate or marginal groups select and invent from materials...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. While subjugated peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine...

...term in their interpretation of literary texts. In a book published in 1992, Mary Louise Pratt defined the term "to describe how subordinated or marginal...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture," Pratt, Imperial Eyes, 6. See also Spitta, Between Two Waters, 1-28, who gives an excellent critique...

...which she 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 subiugated peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine...