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

• ReggaetonRelated: Reggaeton’s global success has raised questions about credit, power, and Caribbean musical origins.

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

• TraditionalismRelated: Preserving a tradition raises questions about who may adapt or use its practices.

• BlackfaceRelated: Debates about blackface often examine who can represent another group and with what consequences.

• Cultural propertyRelated: It raises questions about who may use cultural objects and meanings, beyond who owns them.

• Hip-hop cultureRelated: Hip-hop’s spread beyond its originating communities raises disputes over borrowing, ownership, and recognition.

• Historical romanceRelated: Historical romance raises questions about who tells stories set in cultures not their own.

• 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.

• Cultural globalizationRelated: Global borrowing can provoke disputes over respect, credit, and control.

• 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.

• Cultural homogenizationRelated: Borrowing can circulate cultural forms, though it does not necessarily erase their differences.

• OriginalityRelated: Borrowing across cultures raises questions about originality, attribution, and ownership.

• BarbecueRelated: Debates about barbecue credit and ownership reflect the unequal histories behind regional food traditions.

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

• Fashion journalismRelated: Fashion reporting examines disputes over borrowing, credit, and power in clothing and design.

• Hip-hop fashionRelated: Commercial use of hip-hop styles raises questions about credit, ownership, and benefit.

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

• Adaptation (arts)Related: Adaptations of culturally specific works can raise questions about power, context, and ownership.

• African artRelated: The concept helps frame disputes over borrowing, attribution, and control of African forms.

• Cultural essentialismRelated: Debates about appropriation can rely on fixed ideas of who owns or represents a culture.

• Joseph CampbellRelated: Critics question whether universal myth schemes flatten traditions or extract them from their communities.

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

• ReenactmentRelated: Portraying another community's past can raise questions about authority and representation.

• African popular musicRelated: Global borrowing from African sounds raises questions about credit, context, and control.

• ClothingRelated: Wearing culturally significant garments can raise questions of ownership and respect.

• DancehallRelated: Dancehall’s global popularity raises questions about who profits from Jamaican styles and how they are represented.

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

• Indigenous archaeologyRelated: Research and display can reproduce appropriation when knowledge is extracted without permission or benefit.

• Luxury fashionRelated: Luxury collections can provoke disputes over borrowed motifs, attribution, and unequal commercial benefit.

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

• African traditional religionsRelated: Commercial use of sacred symbols can detach them from community authority and context.

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

• Arthur WaleyRelated: Waley’s mediation of Asian literature raises questions about authority, selection, and cultural representation.

• Body modificationRelated: Using culturally specific modifications outside their communities can raise questions of appropriation.

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

• KohlRelated: Contemporary fashion uses of kohl raise questions about cultural context and commercial ownership.

• La BayadèreRelated: The ballet’s exoticized setting raises questions about staging India through European conventions.

• The Hero with a Thousand FacesRelated: Critics question Campbell’s treatment of distinct traditions as material for a universal pattern.

• White supremacyRelated: Unequal control over representation and profit can reproduce racialized cultural hierarchies.

• Chichen ItzaRelated: Debates over excavation and display concern who controls Maya cultural heritage.

• CommercializationRelated: Commercial use of cultural symbols can raise questions about consent, credit, and benefit.

• 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.

• ExoticismRelated: Exotic fascination can encourage outsiders to borrow cultural signs while detaching them from their meanings.

• Folk music revivalRelated: Revival reinterpretations can raise questions about who controls and benefits from traditional music.

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

• Music genreRelated: Genre borrowing can raise disputes over credit, ownership, and unequal commercial benefit.

• Ruth St. DenisRelated: Her staged use of Asian and Middle Eastern motifs raises questions about ownership and representation.