Archaeologists disagree whether it was introduced by Uto-Aztecan migrants from Mesoamerica or spread northward by cultural borrowing.
This no-frills exhibition is about the dynamics of cultural borrowing, the inseparability of art and politics, and the interplay of modernism and Islamicism.
There is some evidence of a limited cultural borrowing from the Christians by the Muwalladun and other Muslims in Al-Andalus.
The cultural borrowings and interminglings which have brought us to this moment cover vast distances and an enormous span of time.
"The histories of African, Indian and European people have been inextricably mingled from the beginning and cultural borrowing between groups has gone on for some time," Dr. Nash said.
Anthropologists have studied the process of cultural appropriation, or cultural borrowing (which includes art and urbanism), as part of cultural change and contact between different cultures.
This may indicate a common origin for these creatures, or it may represent cultural borrowings and influences of European peoples upon one another.
There is a evidence of a limited cultural borrowing from the Mozarabs by the Muslim community in Al-Andalus.
Ballet choreographers have done their own cultural borrowing.
Her cultural borrowings resulted in two types of works -sketches and dance-dramas - when the troupe appeared Sunday afternoon at the Nikolais-Louis Studio.