Fernando Ortiz's proposal to replace the word acculturation with transculturation in Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (1940) has become an iconic statement affirming distinctiveness of Latin American anthropology. This narrative includes a deeper thread that involves Bronisław Malinowski, who praised neologism for its counterhegemonic implications his introduction Contrapunteo. Accord...

Current Western societies are characterized by cultural diversity. Europe has gradually become a place populated by very diverse groups, due mainly to an influx of immigration. Various adaptation mechanisms have developed in the receiving society, and in turn, in immigrant groups. Due to a variety of factors, including well-embedded social prejudices, stereotypes and cultural distance, there ar...

The article is an analysis of the problem identity present in two novels by French writers Iranian origin : Marx et la poupée [Marx and Doll] Maryam Madjidi Désorientale [Disoriental] Negar Djavadi. issue exile reconstruction context immigration illustrated on basis Fernando Ortiz's theory "deculturation, acculturation, transculturation". subject research also intercultural dialogue, which appl...