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- Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity in a manner perceived as inappropriate or unacknowledged. This can be especially controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from minority cultures. When cultural elements are copied from a minority culture by members of a dominant culture, and these elements are used outside of their original cultural context – sometimes even against the...
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One issue that complicates theoretical discussion of cultural appropriation is the fact that culture itself is a contested concept. In order for one culture to take from another, there has to be some shared understanding about the presence of boundaries separating cultures. In
Aug 30, 2021 · Cultural appropriation is a highly contested subject within the media and society more broadly, often provoking moral outrage. It is receiving increasing interest within the academy and the last 20 years have seen the publication of a number of important studies.
- Rina Arya
- 30 August 2021
- 2
- 15, Issue10
Oct 21, 2023 · The biggest challenge is the contested concept of culture. Postcolonial theory has enabled a more fluid understanding and shown an emergence of marginalised groups articulating culture in their own terms.
In 2017, Mehgan Gallagher spoke about what exactly does the debate concerning cultural appropriation entail within the modern age, specifically within the United States. She used contemporary examples of cultural appropriation to highlight cases of controversy.
- A. Nineteenth-Century Sources of the Concept of Culture
- B. Recent Theories of the Concept of Culture
- C. Cultural Production and Appropriation
Historically, culture as an analytic concept in anthropology developed to describe a world in which Europeans understood there to be civilized people and "primitives" who lived unchanging and utterly different, although internally coherent, lives. These "primitives" had to be tolerated, not because they conformed to the values of the observer but b...
Other models of culture provide richer possibilities for thinking about the relationship between law and culture under conditions of cultural contact, hybridity, and globalization. Comaroff and Comaroff take culture to be "the semantic space, the field of signs and practices, in which human beings construct and represent themselves and others, and ...
All of these newer understandings of culture emphasize the agentive aspects of culture and its interactive co-construction over time. Concepts such as cultural production and cultural appropriation provide for agency and power in historically constituted spaces. Cultural production incorporates notions of production and culture, since this form of ...
- Sally Engle Merry
- 1998
Mar 2, 2022 · In this paper, we reject this distinction – at least in the context of cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation – and much of the debate that has come to depend on it. We defend the view that ‘cultural appropriation’ is already built into ‘cultural appreciation’.
Oct 9, 2022 · Cultural appropriation and blackface persists in popular culture in a world facing a resurgence of right wing politics in the form of ethnonationalism, xenophobia and fascism.
