Cultural transpropriation is a term proposed by Argentine historian Ezequiel Adamovsky to describe a form of interethnic cultural exchange specific to the Latin American context, where cultural flux plays a crucial role in the making and redefinition of ethnic identities. Unlike cultural appropriation, which is typically framed in Anglo-American discourse as the exploitative or unacknowledged borrowing of cultural elements across rigid ethnic boundaries, cultural transpropriation refers to collective processes of self-transformation through the assimilation of elements from other groups. It is not an individual act of theft or commodification, but a shared endeavor embedded in histories of mestizaje, hybridity, and ethnogenesis, common in Latin American societies. Adamovsky argues that in…