Meanings
plural interculturations
- countableuncountableThe process by which similar cultures that come into contact mutually influence and alter each other.
The dual processes of acculturation and interculturation are constitutive of the 'creative ambivalence' characterising the behaviour of Caribbean peoples.
2008, Narmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch, Judith Okely, Knowing how to Know: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present, page 1872 more examples
Terms such as "inculturation," "localization," "contextualization," or "indigenization" of theology (Schreiter 1985, 1) are used for interculturation of faith, but many Indigenous people find these terms, including inculturation, suggestive of colonialist attitudes exerting "power over" the process.
2015, Pamela Couture, Robert Mager, Pamela McCarroll, Complex Identities in a Shifting World: One God, Many Stories, page 175Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.
2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194
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