Engaging Transculturality : Concepts, Key Terms, Case Studies

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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
	7 Transculturality, or, how to find Europe beyond Eurocentrism
Part 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
	12 Modern Arabic rhetorical manuals: A transcultural phenomenon
	13 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
	18 Appropriation of effective and changing things: A prehistorian’s perspective
	19 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
	26 Affect beyond the human: Indian agriculture in a multispecies world
	27 Transforming knowledge: Concepts of transcultural studies and digital humanities
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