Polyculture

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The planting of two or more crops in the same place. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A multiculture; a polycultural society, sometimes especially one in which multiple cultures exist without one dominating. countable, uncommon, uncountable

    "What we have here is not a 'multiculture' as it is represented in multiculturalism, not a pluralist order of discrete patches of culture, all somehow, 'equally valid' within the polity, but—to form a Greek/Roman Creole—a polyculture, or at any rate a collection of cultural entities that are not (a) discrete and complete in themselves; (b) that are not in any sense 'intrinsically' 'equal'; and (c) are active together and hence bound up with change."

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multicroppingpolycropping

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"What we have here is not a 'multiculture' as it is represented in multiculturalism, not a pluralist order of discrete patches of culture, all somehow, 'equally valid' within the polity, but—to form a Greek/Roman Creole—a polyculture, or at any rate a collection of cultural entities that are not (a) discrete and complete in themselves; (b) that are not in any sense 'intrinsically' 'equal'; and (c) are active together and hence bound up with change."

Etymology

From poly- + culture.

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