Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization

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"Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is often treated as a specifically post-colonial phenomenon. The contribuots in this volume assume the historicity of transcultural flows and entanglements; they consider the resulting transformative powers to be a basic feature of cultural change. By juxtaposing different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies, as they appear in the various disciplines, this volume's design is transdisciplinary. Each author presents a disciplinary concept of hybridization and shows how it operatees in specific case studies. The aim is to generate a transdisciplinary perception of hybridity that paves the way for a wider application of this crucial concept."--Back cover.

subjects: Anthropology,  Social sciences,  Archaeology,  Hybridization,  Cultural fusion,  Double appartenance (Sciences sociales),  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  Cultural Policy,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Cultural,  Popular Culture,  Sciences sociales,  Sciences humaines,  Congresses,  Globalization,  Social aspects,  Multiculturalism,  Creoles