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SUMMARY:For A New Hermeneutics of Cultural Appropriation
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CONTACT:Herr Christian Berger (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen )
DESCRIPTION:Herr Christian Berger (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen )
For A New Hermeneutics of Cultural Appropriation
Public lecture as part of the conference "Adapted to Fit – Aktualisierungen von Artefakten im sozialen Gebrauch".
„I will discuss several different approaches (process, overlay, approximation) to cultural appropriation. The argument and its exposition will be synthetic in nature and extend on my previous work in this area (Schneider 2003, 2006a, 2006b, 2012, 2016, 2017). The case studies for illustration will be from the visual arts and material culture, drawing on my research in Argentina.
With cultural appropriation, I mean social and cultural practices in which one (or more) element is taken out of the ‘original’ cultural context and used in another, often with a change of form and meaning.
Seen from the vantage point of recent theorizing around agency and relationality, ‘appropriation’ allows for a middle position in that it allows to consider both the agency of the individual object (or symbol or practice), and the persons involved in the appropriating process, i.e. the appropriating agents.
In sum, rather than seeing appropriation as a mechanical transfer of cultural material, it is here ...
Thursday, 15. May 2025
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