polyculture

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ culture

Noun

polyculture (countable and uncountable, plural polycultures)

1. (agriculture) The planting of two or more crops in the same place.
2. (sociology, uncommon) A multiculture; a polycultural society, sometimes especially one in which multiple cultures exist without one dominating.
   • 2003 (originally 1992), Roger Hewitt, Language, Youth and the Destabilisation of Ethnicity, R. Harris and B. Rampton (eds.), page 190:

     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.

   • 2003, Angus Cameron, Ronen Palan, The Imagined Economies of Globalization, SAGE, →ISBN, page 179:

     Marsdsen, R. (1993) 'Global Monoculture, Multiculture and Polyculture', Social Research 60 (3): 493–523.

   • 2007, Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown, American Ethnic and Cultural S:

     Finally, but equal in importance, this book aims to engage with the ongoing dialogue among scholars of race and ethnicity in America, specifically regarding conversations on the issues of multiculture, polyculture, and the persistence of race.

   • 2014, Kenan Aksu, Turkey: A Regional Power in the Making, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 128:

     Europe/the EU's internal collective group identity is polycultural and not yet multicultural as per its “United in Diversity” motto. The concept of polyculture is a borrowed term from the discipline of agriculture. […] This paper adds a third definition to these two definitions by proposing to include the dominant culture within the fold of the polyculture to make it a multicultural society.

Antonyms

• monoculture

Translations

planting of two or more crops in the same place

• Dutch: polycultuur f, mengteelt f
• Finnish: monipuolinen viljely
• French: polyculture (fr) f
• German: Polykultur f
• Greek: πολυκαλλιέργεια (el) f (polykalliérgeia)
• Italian: policoltura f
• Polish: polikultura f
• Russian: многопо́лье (ru) n (mnogopólʹje)

French

Etymology

From poly- +‎ culture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.li.kyl.tyʁ/

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Noun

polyculture f (plural polycultures)

1. polyculture

   Coordinate term: monoculture

Further reading

• “polyculture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.