Transcultural History

Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille

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• For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation 'past is prologue' reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the... Lees meer

Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission

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• This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present... Lees meer

The Faceless Terrorist

Sophie Roche

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• How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik state also be seen as a mujahid fighter in Islam and be a cousin all at the same time? Is thi... Lees meer

Historical Disaster Experiences

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• Historical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences of natural disasters in different cultures, from Europe acros... Lees meer

Yoga Traveling

• Paperback | Engels | Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Euro
• This book focuses on yoga's transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term "yoga" ha... Lees meer

Transcultural Turbulences

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• Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also... Lees meer

Modernity's Classics

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• This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is ... Lees meer

Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization

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• Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is ofte... Lees meer

Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)

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• This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought... Lees meer

Eurasian Matters

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• The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects mate... Lees meer

Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity

Andrea Bréard

• Paperback | Engels | Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Euro
• The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth ... Lees meer

Citizenship as Cultural Flow

• Paperback | Engels | Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Euro
• The book addresses the very topical subject of citizen making. By delving into a range of sources - among them survey questions, historical documents,... Lees meer

Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation

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• The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of ... Lees meer

Networking the International System

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• The book critically investigates the local impact of international organizations beyond a Western rationale and aims to overcome Eurocentric patterns ... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Transculturality

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• The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena ... Lees meer

Entangled Histories

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• The authors of this book focus on transcultural entanglements in Manchuria during the first half of the twentieth century. Manchuria, as Western histo... Lees meer

Divided Languages?

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• The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference "Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia" held in Jul... Lees meer

Asian Punches

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• This book deals with Punches and Punch-like magazines in 19th and 20th century Asia, covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West vi... Lees meer

'Archaeologizing' Heritage?

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• This book investigates what has constituted notions of "archaeological heritage" from colonial times to the present. It includes case studies of sites... Lees meer

The Nation State and Beyond

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• The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually ... Lees meer

Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization

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• In an age of globalization there is frequent migration across national borders, resulting in a reconsideration of the notion, practice and social inst... Lees meer

Spirits in Transcultural Skies

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• The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters i... Lees meer