Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture

Abstract

This article examines its title words as descriptions of cultural fusion. Some critics have asserted that the idea of cultural mixture posits two pure cultures that come into contact, thereby trapping one in the very logic of purity that these terms promise to transcend. Although this view is found to be unpersuasive, it does call attention to the temporality of mixture. Mixed entities form, become naturalized as coherent, and then mix again to form ‘new mixtures’. The question for further research is: when does mixture begin?

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