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The 273 pages that link to Cultural appropriation, each with the reason it gives.

• Cultural heritageCompared with: Raises disputes over who may use cultural expressions and who benefits from them.

• Intangible cultural heritageCompared with: Debates about heritage recognition often raise questions of ownership, consent, and control.

• Jazz standardCompared with: Debates about jazz standards can involve who receives credit for music shaped by Black musicians.

• Cultural diffusionCompared with: It highlights disputes over power and ownership that can accompany cross-cultural borrowing.

• IconographyCompared with: Cross-cultural motifs can be misread when their source communities and meanings are ignored.

• Religious syncretismCompared with: It foregrounds power and ownership, questions often obscured by the neutral language of blending.

• Indigenous knowledgeCompared with: Use of Indigenous knowledge raises concerns about consent, ownership, and unequal benefits.

• Cultural imperialismCompared with: It highlights disputes over who controls and benefits from cultural exchange.

• Cultural assimilationCompared with: It raises a related but distinct question: who adopts whose culture, and under what power conditions?

• Oriental studiesCompared with: Debates over scholarly access and representation raise related questions about authority and cultural ownership.

• Cultural tourismCompared with: Tourist performances and souvenirs can raise disputes over who represents or benefits from cultural expression.

• SambaCompared with: Samba’s commercialization raises questions about who receives recognition and benefit.

• Fan fictionCompared with: Debates about who may reuse stories and characters echo broader disputes over cultural ownership.

• UNESCO Intangible Cultural HeritageCompared with: Heritage recognition can intensify disputes about who may represent or benefit from a practice.

• Classical receptionCompared with: It raises questions about who may claim, adapt, or profit from classical heritage.

• Cultural nationalismCompared with: National symbols drawn from diverse communities raise questions about ownership and representation.

• BeyoncéCompared with: Debates about her use of cultural imagery raise questions about borrowing, homage, and ownership.

• SyncretismCompared with: It foregrounds unequal power and ownership, questions that claims of syncretism can obscure.

• Youth cultureCompared with: Youth styles can borrow across cultural boundaries, raising questions about power and credit.

• Cultural genocideCompared with: Appropriation concerns cultural borrowing and power, not necessarily a program to destroy a group’s culture.

• MariachiCompared with: Debates about mariachi outside Mexico raise questions about borrowing, belonging, and cultural authority.

• Cross-cultural communicationCompared with: It concerns cultural borrowing and power, not simply communication across cultural differences.

• CreolizationCompared with: The concept highlights contested borrowing, while creolization emphasizes the formation of shared, new cultural forms.

• RaïCompared with: Raï’s international circulation raises questions about who controls and profits from its sound.

• Media representationCompared with: Representation can involve who depicts a culture, while appropriation concerns taking and using its elements.

• Folk artCompared with: Collecting or imitating community art raises questions about ownership, attribution, and control.

• SubcultureCompared with: Mainstream adoption of subcultural styles can raise questions of ownership and power.

• American folkloreCompared with: Folklore raises questions about who may represent, adapt, or profit from community traditions.

• CapoeiraCompared with: Capoeira’s global spread raises questions about ownership, credit, and unequal cultural exchange.

• CountercultureCompared with: Countercultural borrowing can challenge dominant norms while also reproducing unequal cultural relations.

• Cultural heritage preservationCompared with: Preservation can protect cultural expressions while still raising concerns about control and misuse.

• HulaCompared with: Debates about commercialized hula distinguish cultural exchange from use detached from Hawaiian communities.

• Alice WalkerCompared with: Walker’s engagement with other cultures raises questions about representation, solidarity, and ownership.

• CuisineCompared with: Debates about adapting dishes raise questions about credit, ownership, and unequal cultural exchange.

• Culinary tourismCompared with: Tourism can commercialize food traditions while separating them from the communities that sustain them.

• Folk danceCompared with: Debates arise when dances are detached from the communities that sustain them.

• Lunar New YearCompared with: Commercial use of holiday symbols can raise questions about respect, ownership, and representation.

• Political musicCompared with: Political songs that borrow traditions can raise disputes about representation, ownership, and power.

• Romani musicCompared with: Debates arise when Romani-derived styles circulate without recognition of Romani musicians or histories.

• Māori cultureCompared with: Debates over use of Māori designs and symbols turn on authority, context, and consent.

• Mongolian shamanismCompared with: Commercialized versions of shamanism can detach practices from Mongolian communities and histories.

• African popular cultureCompared with: Global popularity raises questions about who benefits when African styles are adopted elsewhere.

• Australian folkloreCompared with: Retellings of Indigenous stories can obscure cultural authority, community ownership, and local variation.

• Chinese cultural heritageCompared with: Disputes over ownership and representation arise when heritage is used beyond its originating communities.

• Classical music in popular cultureCompared with: Its framework helps distinguish ordinary musical reuse from contested extraction or misrepresentation.

• Postcolonial artCompared with: Its contested boundaries sharpen debates over borrowing, ownership, and artistic authority.

• Bella ciaoCompared with: Debates about commercial and political reuse ask who can claim the song’s meaning.

• Martin AmisCompared with: Criticism of Amis’s imagined representations of the Holocaust raises questions about artistic license and historical suffering.

• Musical nationalismCompared with: National music raises questions about who claims, reshapes, or represents shared traditions.

• Barry HumphriesCompared with: Criticism of Humphries’s impersonations raised questions about who may perform culturally marked identities.