Introduction

Creolization and Folklore--Cultural Creativity in Process

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ID2970048
AuthorsRobert Baron (0000-0002-2784-1518), Robert B Baron (0000-0001-7115-2667), Ana C Cara
Year2003
Volume116
Issue459
Pages4-8
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaf.2003.0002
OpenAlexW1988198980
LanguageEN
Citations received10

CREOLIZATION IS CULTURAL CREATIVITY in process. When cultures come into contact, expressive forms and performances emerge from their encounter, embodying the sources that shape them, yet constituting new and different entities. Fluid in their adaptation to changing circumstances and open to multiple meanings, creole forms are expressions of culture in transition and transformation. Traditionally associated with the new New World cultures of Caribbean and Latin American creole societies, creolization is now increasingly viewed as a universal process that could occur anywhere cultures encounter one another

Adaptation (eye) · Aesthetics · Art · Creativity · Creole language · Creolization · Folklore · Linguistics · Political science · Process (computing) · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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