Appropriation
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Appropriation is the act of taking possession of or assigning purpose to properties or ideas and is important in many topics, including:
- Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge
- Appropriation (art)
- Appropriation (music) in reference to the re-use and proliferation of different types of music
- Appropriation (economics) origination of human ownership of previously unowned natural resources such as land
- Cultural appropriation is the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another.
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Etymology
From Latin ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).
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