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1 online resource (477 pages) |
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Engaging With ... Ser |
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Engaging With ... Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: Engaging transculturality; Part A Delineating transculturality; 1 Cultural hybridity and transculturality; 2 Asymmetry in transcultural interaction; 3 Global connections in transcultural research: Thoughts from a historian's perspective; 4 Not 'cultures', but culture! The need for a transcultural perspective in archaeology; 5 Civilization(s): Use and abuse of a macro-historical category; 6 Medieval concepts of migration and transculturality |
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7 Transculturality, or, how to find Europe beyond EurocentrismPart B Transcultural spaces and agents; 8 Exploring the contact zone: A critical assessment from the perspective of early modern Euro-Ottoman history; 9 Microcosm bazaar: Markets as places of cultural encounters and areas of conflict; 10 Mobility, mediation and transculturation in the medieval Mediterranean: Migrating mercenaries and the challenges of mixing; Part C Transcultural temporalities; 11 Transversal histories and transcultural afterlives: Indianized renditions of Jean Bodin in global intellectual history |
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12 Modern Arabic rhetorical manuals: A transcultural phenomenon13 Migrant literary genres: Transcultural moments and scales of transculturality; Part D Transcultural semantics; 14 Translating Jesuits: Translation as a useful tool to explore transculturality?; 15 Islamic law with Chinese characteristics: Approaching cultural transfers through a functional theory; 16 Economies of the sacred in premodern Japan; 17 Cultural heritage and global architectural history between appropriation, substitution and translation: Plaster casts of Angkor Wat in a transcultural perspective |
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18 Appropriation of effective and changing things: A prehistorian's perspective19 The vocation of indigenous knowledge and sciences as metaconcepts; Part E The transcultural lens; 20 'A very civil idea . . .': Art history and world-making -- with and beyond the nation; 21 The problem with a geoaesthetic approach to the Indian Highway exhibition; 22 Press powers: China, gender and the media in a global context; 23 Citizenship, hybridity and the post-colonial state in India; 24 The transcultural turn in the study of 'religion'; 25 Emotion studies and transcultural studies |
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26 Affect beyond the human: Indian agriculture in a multispecies world27 Transforming knowledge: Concepts of transcultural studies and digital humanities; Index |
| Summary |
"Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field's central methodological concepts and terms"-- Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Cross-cultural studies
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brosius, Christiane
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Meurer, Sebastian
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Panagiotopoulos, Diamantis
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Richter, Susan
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| ISBN |
9780429771859 |
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0429771851 |
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