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Faceless Terrorist
A Study of Critical Events in Tajikistan
Av Sophie Roche
Häftad, 2019
932 kr
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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 this just a matter of perspective and conceptualization? To believe in the protection of concepts to safeguard groups and individuals from the uncertain …
Yoga Traveling
Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective
Häftad, 2013
605 kr
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This book focuses on yoga’s transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term “yoga” has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some sort of improvement, whether …
Entangled Histories
The Transcultural Past of Northeast China
Av Dan Ben-Canaan, Frank Grüner m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1170 kr
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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 historiography commonly designates the three northeastern provinces of China, was a politically, culturally and economically contested region. In the late …
Divided Languages?
Diglossia, Translation and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World
Av Judit Árokay, Jadranka Gvozdanović m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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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 July 2011 at Heidelberg University. The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East Asian and in European …
Networking the International System
Global Histories of International Organizations
Häftad, 2014
1095 kr
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The book critically investigates the local impact of international organizations beyond a Western rationale and aims to overcome Eurocentric patterns of analysis. Considering Asian and Western examples, the contributions originate from different disciplines and study areas and discuss a global …
Dynamics of Transculturality
Concepts and Institutions in Motion
Av Antje Flüchter, Jivanta Schöttli
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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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 gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese …
Spirits in Transcultural Skies
Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West
Av Niels Gutschow, Katharina Weiler
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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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 in art and architecture. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area, documenting a practice found in …
Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission
From Decay to Recovery
Häftad, 2015
1464 kr
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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. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial India and the Dutch East …
Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation
Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia
Av Katharina Weiler, Niels Gutschow
Häftad, 2016
1240 kr
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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 the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in local and international …
Historical Disaster Experiences
Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe
Häftad, 2017
1576 kr
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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 across the Near East to Asia. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and transcultural dynamics in the …
EurAsian Matters
China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800
Av Anna Grasskamp, Monica Juneja
Häftad, 2018
1530 kr
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The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility …
Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity
Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China
Häftad, 2019
932 kr
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The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective. Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical knowledge in terms of a process of …
Transcultural Turbulences
Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows
Av Christiane Brosius, Roland Wenzlhuemer
Häftad, 2011
1639 kr
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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 poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across geophysical and …
Transcultural History
Theories, Methods, Sources
Av Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1688 kr
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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 global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims …
Structures on the Move
Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter
Av Antje Flüchter, Susan Richter
Häftad, 2012
2183 kr
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This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation. Once more, statehood and governance are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state building is often considered to be a genuinely European …
Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization
The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe
Av Markus Pohlmann, Jonghoe Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1095 kr
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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 institution of national citizenship. Addressing this phenomenon, the book focuses on the exchange between, and responses, of Korea and Germany. In …
Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Av Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer
Häftad, 2011
1095 kr
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Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is often treated as a specifically post-colonial phenomenon. The contributors in this volume assume the historicity of transcultural flows and …
Asian Punches
A Transcultural Affair
Av Hans Harder, Barbara Mittler
Häftad, 2013
1095 kr
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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 via British India up to China and Japan in the East. It traces an alternative and largely unacknowledged side of the history of this popular British …
Nation State and Beyond
Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Av Isabella Löhr, Roland Wenzlhuemer
Häftad, 2012
1095 kr
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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 leading to seamless global integration. Accordingly, scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly argued against equating the history of …
Modernity's Classics
Av Sarah C. Humphreys, Rudolf G Wagner
Häftad, 2013
1095 kr
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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 global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of art and architecture, …
Citizenship as Cultural Flow
Structure, Agency and Power
Häftad, 2013
1095 kr
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The book addresses the very topical subject of citizen making. By delving into a range of sources - among them survey questions, historical documents, political theory, architectural design, and public policy - the book provides a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. …
'Archaeologizing' Heritage?
Transcultural Entanglements between Local Social Practices and Global Virtual Realities
Av Michael Falser, Monica Juneja
Häftad, 2013
1576 kr
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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 in South and Southeast Asia with a special focus on Angkor, Cambodia. The contributions, the subjects of which range from architectural and …
Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)
Changing Ways of Thought
Av Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, Rudolf G Wagner
Häftad, 2013
1095 kr
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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 after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation. This volume investigates many …
