Nakala asilia - Kiingereza - If it is accepted that culture is not a stable...

If it is accepted that culture is not a stable structure successfully transmitted across generations, but rather the result, at any particular moment, of historical and social processes that both deform and confirm "structure" [Bourdieu;Ortner], then syncretism can be used within this theoretical frame work to focus attention precisely on accommodation, contest, appropriation, indigenization and a host of other dynamic intercultural and intracultural transactions.