Toward a Theory of Cultural Appropriation

Buddhism, the Vietnam War, and the Field of U.S. Poetry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4521892
AutoresBarış Büyükokutan (0000-0003-0187-3957, Bogaziçi University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen76
Número4
Páginas620-639
Fecha de publicación2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0003122411414820
OpenAlexW2108343143
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas59

Culture and politics have a close relationship, but how exactly does the cultural become the political? This article builds a theoretical framework for this question by examining Vietnam-era U.S. poets' politicization of Buddhism at the expense of more effective or more easily controllable discursive resources. I find, first, that outcomes depend on whether would-be appropriators and legitimate owners of the appropriated resource can strike a mutually beneficial bargain. Second, whether two such distinct parties emerge depends on how tightly contexts of the appropriation process are linked. Consequently, appropriation is best understood as reciprocal exchange

Appropriation · Buddhism · Cultural appropriation · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Process (computing · Reciprocal · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics