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01: Colonial grievances info | papers
02: Reshaping Indigenous worlds info | papers
03: Dynamics of Pacific Religiosity info | papers
04: Mapping Oceania info | papers
05: Rethinking political conflicts, beyond ethnicity info | papers
06: Cultural festivals info | papers
07: Enchantments of technology info | papers
08: Ownership in effect info | papers
09: Spiritual material info | papers
10: Endangered Languages info | papers
11: Transculturation info | papers
12: New Caledonia in Oceania info | papers
13: Keynotes info | papers
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| id: | 11 |
| Title: | Transculturation: Recontextualisations and (Re)conceptualisations in the Adopting of Cultural Practices |
| Number of papers: | 17 |
| Organizers: | Hermann, Elfriede
(University of Göttingen, Germany) |
| Abstract: | This session will explore processes by which cultural elements came to be taken over during intercultural encounters in Oceania. Now that anthropological debate has deconstructed diverse assumptions that would pass off cultures as homogeneous entities, the analytic perspective has, in recent years, picked up on how miscellaneous the cultural elements in "a culture" truly are. Nailing this perspective to our mast, we wish, first of all, to focus on how members of Oceanian societies deal with ideas and practices they have adopted from the cultural repertoires of other societies and then recontextualised in terms of their own social environment. How do these Oceanians conceptualise processes such as cultural borrowing, incorporation and exchange? Also: how do they see it when elements from their own culture are transplanted into other cultures? What role is ascribed to such processes in the genesis and regulation of conflicts? Second, we want to discuss how such complex transfer processes (and their inevitable reciprocities in the cultures involved) are being conceptualised in the analytic terminology of anthropological discourse. Our task will be to scrutinize the concept of "transculturation" and related notions. The array of contexts to be aired in this session will range from regional and national nexi to migrational and transnational ones in Oceania and beyond. |
