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15) Combined with the mid-century tendency toward a new conception of modesty, it represents a fruitful syncretization by reconciling opposed civilizational precepts: Rigorous, "regimental" homogenization was positioned as a corrective to the dismissive ethnocentricity of Westerners that makes nakedness the image of the wild/undisciplined. One theory is that the Holy Week rituals in the southwestern United States stem from the syncretization of Catholic and Jewish traditions. The existence or recognition of "an endless play of abstract forms and patterns" (Ebong 1991:209) could be as much the result of a complicated process of syncretization as a formulaic, derivative practice. |
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