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Hybridity  

Definition

  • Generally meaning the state of being of mixed origin. In a social or cultural context, refers to the concept of individual or group self-identity or creative activity deriving from the interaction of two different societies or cultures, often within the context of Third World people encountering Western or Westernized people, or the formerly colonized meeting the colonizers. [AAT]

Entry terms

  • Cultural fusion, hybridity
  • Culture fusion, hybridity
  • Fusion, cultural, hybridity
  • Hybridism, social sciences
  • Hybridity, social sciences

Notation

  • 122430

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-F7NKCDHM-Z

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