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Preferred term

Bricolage  

Definition

  • Concept first stated by social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss; borrowed by scholars in other disciplines in discussions of how creative artists, teachers and others make adaptive reuse of existing ideas, materials and practices to deal with new situations [AAT, alt.]

Entry terms

  • Adaptation, bricolage
  • Adaptive reuse, bricolage
  • Improvisation, bricolage

Notation

  • 117682

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-ST8MCLCH-S

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