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Acculturation in Tatarstan: The Case of the Sabantui Festival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Azade-Ayşe Rorlich
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No culture enjoys a perfect integration or a static equilibrium of its component traits. The diffusion of features of culture is a constant and crucial dynamic process. Acculturation, as a process of change dominated by the mutual influence of different cultures in close contact, is especially suited to interdisciplinary scrutiny. The study of acculturation is equally challenging for the linguist, the ethnographer, the anthropologist, and the historian interested in investigating processes and forms of cultural change, cultural integration, and causes for the selective receptivity of cultures.

The multinational character of Soviet society against the background of its socioeconomic and ideological homogeneity renders a special quality to the dynamic tension between unity and diversity, especially with regard to culture, cultural change, and integration. Consequently, an investigation of acculturation as a component of the broader ethnic processes is not only justified, but imperative.

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Slavic Review , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , Summer 1982 , pp. 316 - 321
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1982

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