...(see Staski 199o). Acculturation generally refers to "those phenomena [cultural traits or complexes] which result when groups of individuals having different...original cultural patterns of either or both groups" (Herskovits 1941:1o). Melville Herskovits, a pioneer in acculturation studies, conducted the first...

...Process: Assimilation or Integration? Broadly defined, acculturation refers to the changes that occur when "groups of individuals having different cultures...in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups."10 How an immigrant reacts to his or her new situation in Canada depends on a variety of factors....

...acculturation, Melville J. Herskovits, Robert Redfield, and Ralph Linton, in 1936 defined acculturation as "those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups."...

...Theodorson and Theodorson, A Modern Dictionary of Sociology, 3. The classic formulation of acculturation is "those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact" (Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits, "Memorandum," 149). Alfred Kroeber saw acculturation...

...Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation," American Anthropologist 38, no. 1 (January /March 1936): 149: "acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result...original cultural patterns of either or both groups." For questions concerning acculturation and assimilation see, for instance, Elliott A. Barkan, "Race,...

...mannet: "Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals sharing different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups" (p. 149). Three decades later, Graves (1967) coined the...

...available for the exchange of information and methods. Outline for the Study of Acculturation I. Definition "Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result...original cultural patterns of either or both groups." (Note: Under this definition, acculturation is to be distinguished from culture-change, of which it...

...and cultural history of folk groups. It is the study not simply of diffusion but of acculturation — "those phenomena which result when groups of individuals...in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups."5 And folklore acculturation studies in turn involve not only local folklore collections, correlated...

...Begriff 'Akkulturation' eine darüber hinausweisende Definition: "Acculturation" - heißt es darin - " comprehends those phenomena which result when groups...individuals having different cultures come into continuous flrst-hand contact, with subsequent changes in t he original culture patterns ofeither or both groups"...

...academic journals: American Antheopokgist, Man, Africa, and Oceama^ The subcommittee defined acculturation as follows: "Acculturation comprehends those phenomena...in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups.""1- By defining acculturation as two-way cultural influence, the anthropologists undercut previous...