The culture is as old as the very existence of man. It has its beginnings at the time when man
thinks and begins to perform acts arising from their thinking. The manufacture of instruments,
means to facilitate its existence, is a manifestation of culture. Everything that makes man results in
culture, if we understand it as a way to create, as the customs and beliefs of a people, as human
manifestations. Through culture man reveals the intellectual, emotional and physical qualities of
incalculable amount you save itself.
It is important to consider that culture is not static, it is constantly evolving, undergoes changes, is
in uenced by external factors and the culture of a people is di!erent from other people so , the
culture of all peoples is likely to be modi”ed by the culture of other peoples. This raises, among
others, the concept of acculturation.
The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy de”nes transculturation as “reception by a people or
social group forms of culture from another, replacing more or less completely to themselves.”
“Adoption of a people or social group of cultural forms of other people completely or partially
replace their own ways.”
However most authors including Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, recognized authority on Mexican
anthropology, the concept of acculturation is a contentious and unnecessary use of which in
Castilian concept dates back to the translation of the work of Red”eld, The Folk Culture of Yucatan
when the publisher preferred to incorporate the neologism introduced by the Cuban
anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, although the Hertskovits (1952) himself rejected him when he says:
“from the term acculturation not be so “rmly established in the anthropological literature,
