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The 150% Man, a Product of Blackfeet Acculturation 1
Author(s) -
McFEE MALCOLM
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1968.70.6.02a00040
Subject(s) - acculturation , situational ethics , social psychology , reservation , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , psychology , salient , product (mathematics) , anthropology , computer science , ethnic group , political science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , law , geometry
Some work with the “levels of acculturation” concept seems to assume a continuum of change and often entails an unintended correlate of cultural loss and replacement. An assessment of individuals among the Blackfeet using two scales, one a measure of Indian orientation and the other of White orientation, reveals that this view may be incorrect. New ways can be learned without abandoning the old. The bicultural reservation community provides a variety of roles and situations for selective use of both. It is suggested that a matrix model would be more meaningful than the continuum model for the assessment of individual acculturation, and that more attention should be paid to situational factors.