ANT 322M Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hispanic And Latino Americans, Acculturation
30 Jan 2017
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Classic theoretical foundations in the study of immigration and cultural incorporation: melville herskovitz; 1939 - acculturation and assimilation. Very prominent anthropologist, then switched to sociology because during the 30s most anthropologists studied abroad. He was more interested in the study of the u. s: he influenced both fields, though. In 1939 he wrote acculturation it was an attempt to understand the culture and how it evolves in societies that have been colonized by other nations: he coined acculturation" and it was eventually adopted, he advanced a theory about colonization. During his time colonization was viewed as something positive (until 60s, when it was viewed as oppression). It was viewed as a process by which backward" societies are modernized. He developed a theory to explain what happens to societies that are colonization acculturation until assimilation. He said colonizers exploited those people and stigmatized the culture of the colonized. Social problems because the culture is dismantled and fragmented it was very progressive.
