Indigenizationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From indigenous +‎ -ization.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪnˌdɪdʒənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

indigenization (countable and uncountable, plural indigenizations)

1. The act of making something or someone more indigenous; adaptation to native or local culture.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709:

     An early attempt at what might now be called indigenization occurred in one of the first forts which the Portuguese built on the West African coast, Fort St George of Elmina, in what is now Ghana.

   • 2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 225:

     [A] reverse process of what we might call indigenisation also occurred, in which the freed convicts and their families and their descendants took on some of the values and mentality of Aboriginal people.

2. The capability to manufacture a product, or supply a service independently within a country instead of relying on foreign manufactures or suppliers.

参考

• globalization
• nativization