Borrowed power: essays on cultural appropriation in.
Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation. This book was a really informative and insightful collection of essays over cultural appropriation in our society today, mostly focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically more or less.In this collection of essays, artists, museum directors, and scholars of anthropology, law, art history, cultural studies and political science, discuss cultural appropriation and its implications. Over six sections from music to science, the relationship between culture and power is examined.The item Borrowed power: essays on cultural appropiation, edited by Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Brigham Young University.
Cultural Appropriation. Is borrowing another cultural practice out of context for fun or fashion (Conley). Here are some common examples of cultural appropriation.Cultural appropriation is a sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon. Generally, an assumption that the culture being borrowed from is also being oppressed by the culture doing the borrowing is prerequisite to the concept.
Essays on Cultural Appropriation. Cultural appropriation (or misappropriation) happens when members of one culture adopt elements of another culture. The amorality usually arises when dominant cultures borrow these elements from formerly oppressed, currently oppressed, or even extinct cultures.
