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Acculturation

Here are entered works on cultural change caused by prolonged contact between social groups, leading to a change in one or both cultures. Works on the often unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of a dominant culture are entered under Cultural appropriation. Works on the absorption of a minority group into the culture, values, and social behaviors of the dominant culture are entered under Assimilation (Sociology)

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• Acculturation -- Bibliography
• Acculturation -- Burma
• Acculturation -- Case studies
• Acculturation -- China
• Acculturation -- Congresses
• Acculturation -- Hawaii
• Acculturation -- Papua New Guinea
• Acculturation -- Study and teaching
• Acculturation -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
• Acculturation -- United States
• Diffusion of innovations
• North and south

• Culture contact (Acculturation)
• Development education

• Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era (c2000), ed. by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Big Bead Mesa: An Archaeological Study of Navaho Acculturation, 1745-1812 (Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology #1; 1941), by Dorothy Louise Keur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New nations. (University of Chicago Press, 1963), by Lucy Philip Mair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Changing configurations in the social organization of a Blackfoot tribe during the reserve period (The Blood of Alberta, Canada) (J. J. Augustin, 1945), by Esther Schiff Goldfrank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Race and culture contacts in the modern world. (Knopf, 1957), by Edward Franklin Frazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Race and culture relations. (McGraw-Hill, 1952), by Paul Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some modern Hawaiians. ([Honolulu, 1937), by Ernest Beaglehole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The clash of culture and the contact of races; an anthropological and psychological study of the laws of racial adaptability, with special reference to the depopulation of the Pacific and the government of subject races (G. Routledge, 1927), by George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cultural patterns and technical change (from the Tensions and technology series) A manual (New American Library, 1955), by World Federation for Mental Health, Margaret Mead, and Unesco (page images at HathiTrust)
• San Blas Cuna acculturation: an introduction. (New York, 1947), by David B. Stout and Ralph Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultural and historical geography of southwest Guatemala. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1947), by F. Webster McBryde and United States. Dept. of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture conflict and crime (Social science research council, 1938), by Johan Thorsten Sellin and Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Personality and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish-Guarani relations in early colonial Paraguay. (University of Michigan Press, 1954), by Elman Rogers Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jews in transition. (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1949), by Albert Issac Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acculturation; the study of culture contact. (P. Smith, 1958), by Melville J. Herskovits (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study on the bases of an educational policy that will take into consideration the problems arising from the process of incorporating Indian or other minority groups into national life (Resolution XLVIII, 3, g, of the first meeting of the Inter-American Cultural Council) (Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Pan American Union, 1953), by Inter-American Cultural Council. Committee for Cultural Action (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Navajo migrations and acculturation in the Southwest (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1962), by James J. Hester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in northern Brazil, a study in acculturation. (J. J. Augustin, 1948), by Octavio da Costa Eduardo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The native brotherhoods: modern intertribal organizations on the Northwest coast. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958), by Philip Drucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menomini women and culture change. (American Anthropological Association, 1962), by Louise S. Spindler and American Anthropological Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The making of modern New Guinea (American Philosophical Society, 1943), by Stephen Winsor Reed and Institute of Pacific Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acculturation: the study of culture contact (J. J. Augustin, 1938), by Melville J. Herskovits (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sociocultural and psychological processes in Menomini acculturation. (University of California Press, 1955), by George Dearborn Spindler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afrikanische Relikte und indianische entlehnungen in der Kultur der Buschneger Surinams : eine vergleichende ethnographische Studie (Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1924), by Gerhard Lindblom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Oneida Indians of Wisconsin (Published by the order of the Board of Trustees, 1950), by Robert Eugene Ritzenthaler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acculturation among the Japanese of Kona, Hawaii. (The American Anthropological Association, 1941), by John F. Embree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Education across cultures. (W.C. Brown Book Co., 1963), by Miles V. Zintz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taiwan dōkasaku ron : ichimei "Taiwan tōmin no minzoku shinrigakuteki kenkyū" (Kōbunkan, 1923), by Sunao Shibata (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nuevo decreto reglamentario de 23 diciembre de 1905, referente al servico de las misiones de infieles en Bolivia, con un apéndice histórico- geográfico sobre las existentes en la República. (Tall. Tip.-Lit. de J.M. Gamarra, 1906), by Bolivia and Bolivia. Ministerio de colonización y agricultura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acculturation and material culture (Chicago Natural History Museum, 1951), by George I. Quimby and Alexander Spoehr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Changing kinship systems: a study in the acculturation of the Creeks, Cherokee, and Choctaw (Field Museum Press, 1947), by Alexander Spoehr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Time perspective in aboriginal American culture, a study in method (Government Printing Bureau, 1916), by Edward Sapir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kulturgeschichte der Rasseninstinkte. (E. Diederichs, 1900), by Heinrich Driesmans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ethnography and acculturation of the Chichimeca-Jonaz of northeast Mexico (Indiana University, 1963), by Harold E. Driver and Wilhelmine Creel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cayuá culture change : a study in acculturation and methodology. (American Anthropological Association, 1952), by James B. Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The acculturation of the Japanese immigrants in Brazil (University of Florida Press, 1959), by Yukio Fujii and T. Lynn Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The clash of culture and the contact of races; an anthropological and psychological study of the laws of racial adaptability, with special reference to the depopulation of the Pacific and the government of subject races. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dakota Indian economy (Rural Sociology Dept., Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State College, 1963), by Vernon D. Malan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On culture contact and its working in modern Palestine. (American Anthropological Assn., 1947), by Raphael Patai and American Anthropological Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some factors in the Indian problem in New Mexico. (Division of Research, Dept. of Government, University of New Mexico, 1948), by Florence Hawley Ellis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Government-sponsored and private research on foreign students (Washington, 1965), by United States. Dept. of State. External Research Staff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to materials bearing on cultural relations in New Mexico (The University of New Mexico Press, 1944), by Lyle Saunders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Schädigung der Rasse durch soziales und wirtschaftliches Aufsteigen, bewiesen an den Berliner Juden (L. Lamm, 1914), by Felix A. Theilhaber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Schädigung der Rasse: durch soziales und wirtschaftliches Aufsteigen bewiesen an den Berliner Juden (in German), by Felix A. Theilhaber (Gutenberg ebook)

• Geographic and historic foundations of the present-day distribution of peoples in the Nan Shan-Koko Nor area (University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1950), by Din-Zu Chow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical metaphors and mythical realities : structure in the early history of the Sandwich Islands kingdom (University of Michigan Press, 1981), by Marshall Sahlins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sociological foundations supporting the study of cultural diversity (National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, 1991), by Hugh Mehan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Linear vs. branching structures in the presentation of acculturative materials (Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972), by Roy S. Malpass, Harry Charalambos Triandis, J. R. Salancik, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Psychology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Bill Ong Hing (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Education for cross-cultural enrichment : selected articles from Indian education, 1952-1964 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Education, 1964), by Hildegard Thompson and United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Branch of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• A citizen of the world : an essay submitted to the Department of Economics of the University of Wisconsin as a contribution to the investigation of the social adjustment process of human relationship (1928), by Ryozo Matsumoto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans All, Immigrants All, by inc. Columbia Broadcasting System and United States. Office of Education (Gutenberg ebook)

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