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Document Details : Title: Transcultural Vibrations Author(s): VISKER, Rudi Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 1 Issue: 2 Date: June 1994 Pages: 89-100 DOI: 10.2143/EP.1.2.630098 Abstract : Interculturalism and multiculturalism seem to be finished. ‘Transculturalism’ is now the order of the day, an idea which, apart from referring to a break with the classical conception of culture, also indicates in which direction a solution should be sought: in the mutual intersection, penetration, interweaving and overlapping between the cultural forms and lifestyles cutting through the various national or ethnic cultures which are now seen to be less monolithic and less hermetic than they had appeared through multicultural spectacles. In short, métissage is in, and we all find ourselves in a big melting pot where the political problem no longer consists in combining the different ingredients (interculturalism in a situation of multiculturalism) but in giving shape to the combination which has already come about de facto — and by ‘shape’, transculturalism is not simply referring to the syncretism of bringing old, already existing elements together, but rather means to establish something new. |
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