transculturation

English

Alternative forms

• transculturisation, transculturization

Etymology

trans- +‎ culture +‎ -ation, coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1947.

Noun

transculturation (countable and uncountable, plural transculturations)

1. The phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.
   • 2019 April 2, Ben van Gelderen, Kathy Guthadjaka, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, volume 50, number 1, →DOI, page 147:

     In this paper we briefly revisit the first iterations of the ‘Bothways’ philosophy to demonstrate its symmetry with the Yolŋu transculturation heritage (of the Warramiri in particular), developed through many centuries of contact with sea-faring visitors.

   • 2022, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Health and Health Care Inequities, Infectious Diseases and Social Factors, page 93:

     […] the inherent difficulties of migratory processes, including traumatizing predepartures and journeys, the challenges of transculturation and family reorganization, and the coming to terms with new living conditions […]

Related terms

• acculturation
• deculturation
• neoculturation

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: transculturación