I libri di Oasis

Meticciato: convivenza o confusione?

Paolo Gomarasca, Meticciato: convivenza o confusione? (Mestizaje: coexistence or confusion?), Marcianum Press, Venezia 2009

The merging and encounter between different cultures and religions is one of the most evident facts of our times. How is this phenomenon to be interpreted? Can we talk about a hybridization of peoples and cultures? More to the point: do we have to submit to this trend or can we direct it? Moving from the historical experience of Spanish colonization in South America, the author analyzes the theories by which the issue of hybridization has so far been tackled; he also identifies in the relationships of reciprocal acknowledgement the way out of the blind alley of multiculturalism.

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