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acculturation

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[Th]Transference of ideas, beliefs, traditions, and sometimes artefacts by long‐term, personal contact and interaction between communities or societies. Adoption through assimilation by prolonged ...
Melville J. Herskovits

Melville J. Herskovits  

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(1895 –1963)One of the leading American figures in African anthropology and later in the study of African-American culture. Herskovits's abiding interests were the patterns and processes of ...
socialization

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[Ge]The patterns of child‐rearing that serve to endorse behaviours and understandings of the world that are approved of by society.

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