Download or read book Appropriation as Practice written by A. Schneider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.