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September 2021Kulturelle Aneignung (Cultural Appropriation)
Nautilus Flugschrift
by Lars Distelhorst
What are we talking about when we discuss cultural appropriation? Yes, there have always been adoptions and appropriations of techniques, skills, motives etc. in arts and culture throughout history. We learn from each other, of course. That is not the point, though. Cultural exchange is not the same as cultural appropriation. Lars Distelhorst – from a white male perspective and knowingly so – writes about a subject that is as omnipresent as it is inadequately theorised, and with an extraordinary potential to polarise as well. Ethnic party-costumes or dreadlocks, white soul music or yoga – are those cultural appropriations? Discussions tend to escalate quickly here. Distelhorst demonstrates how the macro and micro level of cultural appropriation are connected. He discusses various definitions of the term, including the alleged assumption of essentialist cultural concepts. He analyses three dimensions of cultural appropriation: looted art and artefacts from colonised people, the unasked-for representation of other cultures, and the consumption of culture as commodity. Finally, Distelhorst relates cultural appropriation to anti-racist and anti-capitalist perspectives to use it in fighting against persisting systems of power and domination.
