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" Ethnographers have used this term to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. "
Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America - Page 17
by Marilyn Grace Miller - 2004 - 202 pages
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Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America

Kristina Bross - History - 2004 - 276 pages
...59. 3. Mary Louise Pratt borrows the term "transculturation" from "ethnographers [who] have used this term to describe how subordinated or marginal groups...dominant or metropolitan culture," Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992), 6. 4. For an account of the English...
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Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing ...

Catherine Farris, Anru Lee, Murray Rubinstein - Social Science - 2004 - 418 pages
...coined by Fernando Oritz in the 1940s. Mary Louise Pratt defines it thus: "Ethnographers have used this term to describe how subordinated or marginal groups...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture" (Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation [New York: Routledge, 1992],...
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Before the volcano: reverberations of identity on Montserrat

Jonathan Skinner, Jonathan Skinner (Ph. D.) - History - 2004 - 219 pages
...to represent themselves in ways that engage with the coloniser's own terms"), or "transculturation" ("how subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture"), to try and loosely apply Pratt (1992: 7, 6) to the rest of this book and to the Tourist Board's marketing...
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The Star-entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines

Sharon Delmendo - History - 2004 - 252 pages
...In Imperial Eyes, Mary Louise Pratt utilizes the concept of transculturation, a term that describes "how subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant . . . culture. While subjugated peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture,...
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Material culture : critical concepts in the social sciences. Vol. 3 : Pt. 1

Victor Buchli - Social Science - 2004 - 416 pages
...transculturation we refer to a term borrowed from ethnographers to describe 'how subordinated . . . groups select and invent from materials transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture' (Pratt, 1992, 162 p. 7). As with the cross-breeding of a plant from different strains, this process...
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Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton - History - 2005 - 468 pages
...coined by Fernando Oritz in the 1940s. Mary Louise Pratt defines it thus: "Ethnographers have used this term to describe how subordinated or marginal groups...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture." Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transcultnration, 6. 15. Brown, "On Becoming Chinese" 45....
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Roms orientalische Steppengrenze: Palmyra, Edessa, Dura-Europos, Hatra ...

Michael Sommer - Middle East - 2005 - 464 pages
...Debatte um Kreolisierung ein. Vgl. ebd., 6: „Ethnographers have used this term [transculturation] to describe how subordinated or marginal groups select...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture." Den Begriff brachten ursprünglich lateinamerikanische Soziologen in den 40er Jahren auf, um die Perspektive...
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Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-colonial Europe

Sandra Ponzanesi, Daniela Merolla - History - 2005 - 308 pages
...Ortiz (1978) in relation to Afro-Cuban culture. It has since !>een used by ethnographers to desenlie how subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. Bill Ashcroft. Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin (233> remind us that the term "transculturation"...
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Blush: Faces of Shame

Elspeth Probyn - Shame - 2005 - 218 pages
...penetrate. In her definition of the contact zone, Mary Louise Pratt describes it as the space "where subordinated or marginal groups select and invent...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture." 10 Pratt's wonderful book Imperial Eyes uses travel writing to analyze how the contact zone produces...
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Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-colonial Europe

Sandra Ponzanesi, Daniela Merolla - History - 2005 - 308 pages
...relation to Afro-Cuban culture. 1t has since been used by ethnographers to describe how sulx)rdinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials...transmitted to them by a dominant or metropolitan culture. Bill Ashcroft. Gareth Griff)ths. and Helen Tiffin (233) remind us that the term "transculturation"...
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