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BRUCE ZIFF and PRATIMA V. RAO (eds.), Borrowed Power. Essays on Cultural Appropriation. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997, x + 337 p., paper.
If you were Cherokee, would you buy a Jeep Cherokee? If you are Inuk, how do you feel about soapstone carvings made out of plastic in China? Ifyou are Black, did you really enjoy Pat Boone's interpretation of Little Richard's "Tutti frutti"? If you are Quebecois, do you smile when Mike Duffy summarizes your political aspirations on TV?
These (like many other) questions provide examples of cultural appropriation, the borrowing or taking from others. This is a process most directly relevant to anthropology and other...