Meaning of polyculture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The planting of two or more crops in the same place.
   countable, uncountable
2. A multiculture; a polycultural society, sometimes especially one in which multiple cultures exist without one dominating.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable

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Examples

“What we have⟳ here is not a 'multiculture' as it is represented in multiculturalism, not a pluralist order⟳ of discrete patches of culture, all somehow, 'equally valid' within the polity, but—to form⟳ a Greek/Roman Creole—a polyculture, or at any rate a collection of cultural entities that are not (a) discrete and complete⟳ in themselves; (b) that are not in any sense⟳ 'intrinsically' 'equal'; and (c) are active together and hence bound up with change⟳.”

“Marsdsen, R. (1993) 'Global Monoculture, Multiculture and Polyculture', Social Research⟳ 60 (3): 493–523.”

“Finally, but equal in importance, this book aims to engage⟳ with the ongoing dialogue among scholars of race⟳ and ethnicity in America, specifically regarding conversations on the issues of multiculture, polyculture, and the persistence of race⟳.”

“Europe/the EU's internal collective group identity is polycultural and not yet multicultural as per its “United in Diversity” motto. The concept of polyculture is a borrowed term from the discipline of agriculture. […] This paper adds a third definition to these two definitions by proposing to include⟳ the dominant culture within the fold⟳ of the polyculture to make⟳ it a multicultural society.”

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