Cultural Dissolution: “I Lost Africa”
Cultural consolidation, introduced in the works of Erik Erikson, is difficult for the missionary child who has often been exposed to two or three cultures, unlike the children of uni-cultural experience upon which the Eriksonian developmental theory has been built. This article introduces the concep...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1986
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Missiology
Year: 1986, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 313-324 |
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| Summary: | Cultural consolidation, introduced in the works of Erik Erikson, is difficult for the missionary child who has often been exposed to two or three cultures, unlike the children of uni-cultural experience upon which the Eriksonian developmental theory has been built. This article introduces the concept of cultural dissolution, the fragmentation of cultural identity into its distinct cultural components. The distinctness and impact of the various cultures to which the individual has been exposed may prevent the consolidation upon which a cultural identity depends, leaving a kind of cultural confusion, a lack of consolidation. The cultural equilibrium is most often upset for multicultured missionary children in their adolescent years upon returning to their “first culture.” Not only is the phenomenon of “rootlessness” or ambiguity toward “home” explored in the article, but the implications of a theological rootlessness as well. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182968601400305 |