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Article: Transferts culturels et metissages Amerique / Europe, XVI-XX siecle / Cultural Transfer, America and Europe: 500 Years of Interculturation.(Review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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LAURIER TURGEON, DENYS DELAGE and REAL OUELLET (eds.), Quebec City: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1996, 580 p.
Laurier Turgeon sets out the aims of this colossal book as being: "to envision a 'relational' history of North [and South] America centered on contact, cross-fertilization and syncretism rather than on ethnocultural groups as such" (39) and to attempt to specify the "mechanisms governing cultural transfer in societies of origin as well as in societies of reception" (37). The term "transculturation" (as opposed to the more familiar "acculturation") is used to refer to these "mechanisms" or processes so as to emphasize the interactive or ...