• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Metaphors of Incommensurability
  • Contributor: Szwed, John F.
  • Published: American Folklore Society, 2003
  • Published in: The Journal of American Folklore, 116 (2003) 459, Seite 9-18
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0021-8715; 1535-1882
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  • Description: <p>The idea of creolization as a creative cultural process following the meeting of un-related cultures is a centuries-old folk concept, one developed and fought over primarily in the arena of African and European contact in the Americas. Renewed interest in the idea among social scientists and various art movements suggests that it may also be useful in a broader cultural arena, and one in which the role of folk-lorists may be central.</p>