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	Encyclopedia: Cultural appropriation
		Cultural appropriation is the adoption of elements of cultural expression of one societal group, such as forms of dress or personal adornment, music and art, religion, language, or behavior, by an external group, who often ignore the underlying purpose and intent of the expression.
		When combined with cultural appropriation, particularly if the cultural expression in its original context has attendant religious or spiritual value, or is an important factor in forging group identity, some people may feel that the subject culture has been cheapened, co-opted, or made the appropriation a "meaningless" part of pop culture.
		A common sort of cultural appropriation is the adoption of the iconography of another culture.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cultural-appropriation (4033 words)

	FOOTPRINTS IN NEW SNOW: POSTMODERNISM OR CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?
		The difference between (genuine) postmodern practice and cultural appropriation, or even plagiarism, is that the latter parasitically feed on the meaning and significance of the borrowed material; in fact they have no meaning and significance of their own apart from the borrowing.
		Cultural appropriation and plagiarism are morally questionable on the grounds that they pretend to make a statement and furthermore claim authorship for the said statement, while in fact the entire statement can easily exist within quotation marks.
		In cultural contexts where protectionism is regarded as preferable to a system of free and uninhibited cultural flow and exchange, the moral question that still remains is whether this type of borrowing is justifiable or defensible.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~chatzis/footpaper.htm (9016 words)

	Borrowed Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Instances of appropriation can be found in a number of cultural `domains,' and have been variously addressed by scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, sociology, ethnomusicology, postmodern literary theory, political science, and cultural studies.
		They first offer a working definition of cultural appropriation as `the taking - from a culture that is not one's own - of intellectual property, cultural expressions or artifacts, history and ways of knowing,' and then go on to point out the limitations of such a definition.
		Cultural appropriation may well be `a very complex subject,' as the editors assert, but this book does much to illuminate many of the issues and acts that account for that complexity.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/681/cultural31.html (392 words)

	Cultural appropriation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A white person in dreadlocks and wristband and crocheted cap in Ethiopian colors, sometimes referred to as a "Trustafarian" by people who disapprove nonfls who join the Rastafari movement.
		Likewise, some scholars of the Ottoman empire and ancient Egypt argue that Ottoman and Egyptian architectural traditions have long been falsely claimed and praised as Persian or Arab,[1] and Greco-Roman, innovations, respectively.
		While this kind of music is almost exclusively performed by Romani people, who may not consider themselves Serbs, many people of Serbian origin will consider this to be their own style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_appropriation (1184 words)

	rosebud 2002
		Second, that appropriation does not exist equally between all cultural groups, but in fact it is a result of one group imposing greater “social, economic, and political power,” and therefore the opposite group becomes the subject of appropriation.
		Cultural appropriation is a discussion in cross-cultural conflict, and colonialism.
		This is the difficulty with cultural appropriation debate in a contemporary context.
	web.pdx.edu /~doughert/rosebud_2002.htm (4530 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Conversely, Greece's position is characterized as a claim of cultural protection, and is considered under the guise of cultural property law, international intellectual property law and cultural "appropriation," as voiced by indigenous populations.
		Seeking to prevent "illicit" trade in cultural artifacts and objects, the parties agreed to oppose the "impoverishment of the cultural heritage" of a nation through illegal trade.37 Illegality was to be determined by individual source nations, while once again, the treaty by definition restricted its contemplation of cultural property to that of tangible objects.
		Moreover, cultural nationalism's push for inalienability rests to a large extent on the sanctity of communal objects which cannot be duplicated effectively or are not possessed in sufficient physical quantity.
	www.macedon.org /anmacs/others_on_macedonia.htm (5421 words)

	The Postmodernism Generator: Communications From Elsewhere
		But the premise of cultural appropriation implies that the media is fundamentally used in the service of sexism, given that Foucaultist power relations is valid.
		It could be said that the premise of cultural appropriation states that the establishment is capable of significance.
		In a sense, the primary theme of Sargeant's[11] model of cultural nationalism is the role of the artist as writer.
	www.elsewhere.org /cgi-bin/postmodern/591552504 (1453 words)

	www.doomstone.co.uk
		In terms of cultural theory, appropriation is the act of taking a cultural artefact, and reusing it in a difference context, thereby altering its significance and meaning.
		One of the concerns raised by appropriation is the commandeering of cultural imagery from minorities by mainstream culture.
		Looking back further still, appropriation is evident in the architecture of the regency period, where the architectural style of the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece were appropriated for all manner of public and private buildings.
	www.btinternet.com /~mcatamneysanders/college/culture1.htm (1024 words)

	Cultural Theft
		Indigenous activists from all over the world fight to retain their cultural and intellectual property - a battle fought with opponents who, for the most part, do not even realize they are committing an offensive act.
		Culture is the expression of a group of people: their values, language, music, literature, healing practices, traditions, spiritual belief system, agriculture, art, names, holidays, folklore, and ceremonies.
		It may soon be a matter for the courts; a cultural copyright issue sure to spark controversy and raise opposition from pseudo-Indians, Twinkies and big-businesses alike.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /cultural_theft.htm (2192 words)

	Fellowships in Museum Practice
		This is the strategy that has been most observed and recognized, since, from the position of the dominant culture, other cultural groups continually resist changing their "primitive" ways in a manner which satisfies the dominant criteria of development.
		On the contrary, it is a cultural element that is in opposition to the group, it is an instrument of oppression, a segment of dominant culture that silences and obliterates the group's particular culture.
		The appropriation of the museum project had moved from the tribal chairperson to a representative group of young adults, who were competent professionals with a cause they could articulate as the community's cause, and who sought to further community involvement in numerous ways.
	museumstudies.si.edu /Morales.htm (3137 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Temple > Cultural appropriation in magical practices.
		Hmm, I don’t think cultural appropriation is exclusively a new age phenomena (although various systems of new age thought and practice may rely on it)—like someone stated above, the appropriation of aspects of foreign cultures into a specific culture has been going on for a long time.
		I don’t feel that culture is static, because it is made up of the individuals within it, and individuals are entities that evolve over time; however, there certainly are systems within cultures that have some stability even as the host culture remains dynamic.
		Superficial cultural appropriation is deeply offensive on several levels and to several parties, principally because you're not prepared to have a relationship with what you are taking from on its own terms.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/18485 (5035 words)

	Night Shade Books Discussion Area: Cultural Appropriation
		The idea that patronizing a culture by writing about it should be a matter for deep concern seems to neglect the reality that most cultures are under attack from far more dangerous enemies than writers of fiction.
		He's extraordinarily intolerant of the culture in certain respects and it strikes me that this is not untypical of overseas Indians, in that many, especially those who were born in the West and returned to India as teenagers or children on visits, tend to condescend toward their mother country.
		But she lost me in "Can the Subaltern Speak?" In it, she admits that essentializing a culture for the purpose of representing that culture is the worst kind of appropriation, since it replaces a genuine (but culturally inaudible) voice with a master-culture's approximation of that voice.
	www.nightshadebooks.com /cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=32&post=499 (3989 words)

	Transracial Abductees: "Transracial Adoption and Cultural Appropriation"
		In this age of cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness, white parents claim to do everything they can to learn the language, culture, and food of their abducted children of color.
		White parents will acknowledge that their abducted child is a different race from them and "there's nothing wrong with being a different race." They are open-minded and can't fathom the bigotry that inspires some people of color to call them racist.
		What is most disturbing about this form of cultural appropriation is that whites who abduct children of color disguise their cultural fetish as a concern for the well-being of children.
	www.transracialabductees.org /politics/livingdolls.html (452 words)

	Diversity and Equity at Naropa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Cultural appropriation is the taking or use of elements of another people's culture.
		The university will be responsive to concerns raised regarding issues of cultural appropriation through a formal procedure of registering, investigating and attempting to resolve such concerns.
		Naropa University as a whole and its academic departments in particular are responsible for engaging the staff, faculty and students in education about the ethical issues regarding cultural appropriation and the curricular oversight necessary to ensure that awareness of these issues is sustained.
	www.naropa.edu /diversity.html (633 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Cultural appropriation: A writer's perspective
		I'm ten years older, the world is much changed and there blows a wind in certain literary quarters that frowns upon something called cultural appropriation, by which is usually meant: white authors mining the cultures of minorities for their own profit and gain while the voices of writers from those same minority cultures go unheard.
		An aspect of cultural appropriation is whether a writer treats the minority culture he is borrowing from respectfully.
		ALL culture is based on some form of 'appropriation.' Influences and homages should be acknowledged as an educational service to the reader/consumer.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/03/05/184656.php (3075 words)

	Cultural Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture.
		Cultural Analysis is made possible by generous contributions from The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley, and The University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Assembly.
		Cultural Analysis is not an official publication of the Associated Students of the University of California.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~caforum (205 words)

	Cultural Appreciation: Schedule
		This week opens the conversation about appreciation and appropriation by looking at issues in youth culture that students are likely to be quite familiar with.
		Use the readings about white youth interest in rap and gangsta culture to explore with students differences between “appreciation” and “appropriation”, especially as it functions in consumer culture.
		Connections could be made here to J. Crew’s appropriation of grunge clothing; Eminem’s success in rap, a traditionally African American art form; or the recent ascendancy of street or playground basketball in the NBA and in the wider (marketing) culture.
	www.uiowa.edu /~rhetoric/morphing_textbook/culture/schedule.html (1018 words)

	The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China’s May Fourth Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The idea of re-evaluating cultural change after the failure of political revolution links the Prague conference (and this volume) to the May Fourth Movement itself: the events of 1919 cannot be understood except as a critique of the failed republican revolution of 1911.
		When the hope of changing institutions is dashed, it is a most opportune time to investigate the habits of mind which account for the tenacity of old prejudices in the midst of a radical commitment to a new world.
		For the scholars who contributed the essays in this volume, rethinking culture is augmented by an explicit wish to pay tribute to Jaroslav Prusek, the leader of sinological studies in the former Czechoslovakia.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/721/721_review_schwarca.html (905 words)

	AcupunctureResearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Traditionally in anthropology and cultural studies, such encounters, in which a dominant "Western" culture adopts the practices of a marginalized "Eastern" culture, are interpreted under the rubric of cultural appropriation (cf.
		As an often unquestioned theme in postmodern anthropologies and cultural studies, cultural appropriation is often defined as "a seizure without negotiation" or as "the taking-from a culture that is not one's own" (Ziff and Rao 1997:1).
		The history of acupuncture and Chinese medicine is one of mutability and fluidity, strongly influenced by cultural, historical, and political contexts (Unschuld 1985, 1987; Farquhar 1994).
	www.d.umn.edu /~memad/AcupunctureResearch.htm (1190 words)

	Classroom Edition: Cultural appropriation and Aboriginal literature.
		This is commonly known as "cultural appropriation" or "appropriation of voice" when someone of one culture writes about another.
		That's what fiction is to me, appropriation of a voice other than their own," he said.
		On the other hand, he also pointed out that just because the writer isn't from that culture doesn't mean their observations and conclusions should be dismissed.
	www.ammsa.com /classroom/CLASS3appropriation.html (877 words)

	Native American Tarots
		At any rate, I am completely on board with the argument that when someone who is not a part of a particular culture and religion attempts to dictate their own wishful thinking and misunderstanding of another culture to someone else, they are being a twinkie.
		Cultural Appropriation and Responsible Eclecticism - "What many pagans (and Americans in general) really don't understand, is that culture is holistic.
		Cultural Imperialism in Witchcraft (Siubhan's Little Pagan Page Musings) - "Over the years, I've been troubled by the way that modern Witchcraft appropriates goddesses and gods from all around the world with seemingly no respect for the religions these deities come from.
	www.lelandra.com /comptarot/tarotindian.htm (5894 words)

	Music at Emory University \| Recent Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The editors argue that as the repertory of art music has moved beyond the Orientalist and exotic paradigms of cultural appropriation, it invites a careful negotiation between collective discourses and individual subjectivities in building avenues for interpretation.
		She is the recipient of external grants from the Asian Cultural Council (1998), the National Endowment of Humanities (1998), Bogliasco Residency Fellowship (2002), and Univeristy Research Committee Grant (2003).
		Everett was named 1998 Mayor's Fellow in the Arts by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs for his "outstanding contributions to the arts in Atlanta." He recently served as visiting professor of composition at Princeton University.
	www.music.emory.edu /works/index.html (864 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Cultural appropriation: An opposing view
		I said that though I have some reservations, I believe it is acceptable for a singer or writer to focus on material from a culture he or she was not born into.
		Appropriation is defined as "to make use of material without authority or right." In this case, I'm discussing an author writing about cultures or even races outside of their own personal experience.
		Appropriation of other cultures may also rob the writer of a chance of creating the great artistic work.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/03/10/180125.php (2277 words)

	Cultural Geographies - A Geography Journal from Hodder Arnold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Cultural Geographies has successfully built on Ecumene's reputation for innovative, thoughtful and stylish contributions.
		This unique journal of cultural geographies will continue publishing scholarly research and provocative commentaries.
		It is both a sub-disciplinary intervention and an interdisciplinary forum for the growing number of scholars or practitioners interested in the ways that people imagine, interpret, perform and transform their material and social environments.
	www.arnoldpublishers.com /journals/pages/cultural/09674608.htm (142 words)

	Native American Studies - The University of Montana-Missoula
		After receiving a Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, he served as the Director of the Arapaho Language and Culture Project for the Wyoming Indian Schools.
		"Observations on Response Towards Indigenous Cultural Perspectives as Paradigms in the Classroom." In Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century, edited by Jon Reyhner et al.
		Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America, by Nancy Bonvillain, 2000, Prentice-Hall.
	www.umt.edu /nas/greymorning.htm (553 words)

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