Meanings
plural transculturations · alternative transculturisation · alternative transculturization
- countableuncountableThe phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.
[…] the inherent difficulties of migratory processes, including traumatizing predepartures and journeys, the challenges of transculturation and family reorganization, and the coming to terms with new living conditions […]
2022, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Health and Health Care Inequities, Infectious Diseases and Social Factors, page 931 more example
In this paper we briefly revisit the first iterations of the ‘Bothways’ philosophy to demonstrate its symmetry with the Yolŋu transculturation heritage (of the Warramiri in particular), developed through many centuries of contact with sea-faring visitors.
2019 April 2, Ben van Gelderen, Kathy Guthadjaka, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, volume 50, number 1, →DOI, page 147
Origin
From trans- + culture + -ation, coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1947.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish transculturación
- transculturaciónTranslations
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