Cultural appropriation is often mentioned but undertheorized in critical rhetorical and media studies. Defined as the use of a culture’s symbols, artifacts, genres, rituals, or technologies by members of another culture, cultural appropriation can be placed into 4 categories: exchange, dominance, exploitation, and transculturation. Although each of these types can be understood as relevant to p...

This essay identifies and categorizes terms used to designate the Hispanic/Latino population in the United States. It provides an analysis framing the process of ethnic self-designation within an ethnopolitical and psychosocial context. The analysis concludes by presenting mestizaje and transculturation as processes involved in the evolution of Latino identity.

Resenha de "Decolonizing Sambo: transculturation, fungibility and black people of colour futurity" (2019), Shirley Anne Tate.

Anthropological and historical scholarship on cultural change in colonially subordinated cultures has often stressed deculturation—cultural loss degradation—as a consequence of colonialism. This paper disputes that narrative by presenting the case Indigenous Sibundoy Valley southwest Colombia from an ethnohistorical perspective. Drawing historical, ethnographic, theoretical texts relying concep...

this paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. the paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...