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ENCOUNTER OF CULTURES

THE LATIN AMERICANCASE

CULTURE 1

VARIOUS

LANGUAGE

VARIOUS

RELIGION VARIOUS

CULTURE 2

SPAIN &PORTUGAL

LANGUAGE

SPANISH

PORTUGUESE

RELIGION

CATHOLIC

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ACCULTURATION The culture of the coloniser (C2) takes over 100%

to the extent that the culture of the colonised (C1)

disappears.

In the Latin American case this happened in some

places like the Caribbean islands where the

Awahuaks were all killed, but in most of Latin

America the vernacular cultures and some

languages are still present.

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TRANSCULTURATION FERNANDO ORTIZ (CUBA)

Cultural change introduced by theintroduction of elements of a fereign

culture. It is a process by which a conquered

people choose and select what aspects of the

dominant culture they will assume.

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HYBRIDITYNESTOR GARCIA CANCLINI (MEX)

not in the sense of not productive/bad

the result of contact and interrelation ofdifferent cultural forms. (he elaborates on aneconomic model of the term)

He pays particular attention to the phenomenon of

rural to urban migrationmoving traditions fromrural to urban areas. Traditional culturesrearticulate themselves: cultural reconversion.

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HETEROGENEITY Antonio Cornejo Polar (PERU)

a society broken by the difference and conflict ofsociocultural order, focussing on different ethnicgroups in Peru.

He highlights the uprooting, discontinuity,

fragmentation and fluidity in the formulation ofidentities and the disintegration and heterogeneityof Peruvian society and culture.

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Radharc: The Church in

Latin America

Debt to the Amerindians

Radharc: The Black

Holocaust

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