LAS200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Said, Acculturation, Counter-Reformation
27 Nov 2017
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Some essential terminology in cultural studies (adopted and/or adapted from: key concepts in post-colonial studies by bill ashcroft et. al) The process of learning" how to effectively operate within a new cultural environment by. Adapting" to (and not adopting) its common practices. It does not imply the loss or rejection of any. An immigrant to canada who learns to speak english or french in order to participate within the established infrastructure of society might be said to be acculturated", however still practices his/her own cultural particularities. Originally, appropriation" was the taking over" strategy by which the dominant imperial power incorporates as its own the territory or culture that it surveys and invades. According to current post-colonial practices it now refers to the ways in which the dominated or colonized culture can use the tools of the dominant discourse to resist its political or cultural control.
