ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Acculturation, Transculturation
2 Oct 2012
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Creole is someone who is born of european descent but born in the new world. Or someone (or something) who is from the old world who is taken into the new world and believed to have physically adapted to the new world. A person of mixed blood (amerindian, african and european) Languages that emerged through time that had elements of west. African and european origin but were now new languages in their own right usually west african grammar, european lexicon (with some. Cultural forms include cuisine, music, dance, dress and syncretic religions again the idea of something new created out of elements from previous european and west african styles. Example: bouyon (style of dish or metaphor for dominican culture, style of music), dominica. Syncretism reconciling of two disparate systems of belief. Hybridity genetic mixing, linguistic play, cultural chage through merging and converging.
