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 entanglements; they consider the resulting transformative powers to be a basic feature of cultural change. By juxtaposing different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies, as they appear in the various disciplines, this volume's design is transdisciplinary. Each author presents a disciplinary...
Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is o...
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 periodical, and simultaneously casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis of satirical journalism in various Asian countries. Demonstrating the spread of both textual and visual satire, it is an apt demonstration of the transcultural trajectory of a format intimately linked to media-bound...
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...
This book show that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements allows its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes, and plays various and at times even contradictory roles.
This book show that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements allows its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered...
This book offers a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the constant innovation and re-innovation of citizenship that has occurred in India's legal, political, social, economic and aesthetic arrangements.
This book offers a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the constant innovation and re-innovat...
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 understood in terms of esotericism, fitness, self-actualization, body aesthetics, or health care. The essays in this volume explore some of the turning points in yoga's historico-spatial evolution and their relevance to its current appeal. The authors focus on central motivations, sites, and agents in...
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 ...
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 languages, especially in Japanese, Chinese and in Slavic languages in the framework of the asymmetries in the emergence of modern written languages. Specialists from China, Japan, Great Britain, Germany and the U.S. contributed to the volume by introducing their research focusing on aspects of the...
The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference "Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia" held in Jul...
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 nearly every corner of the world. Its transcultural approach aims at gaining insights into cultural dynamics and consistent networks and defining new historical mindmaps; it examines reciprocal effects and aspects of interwovenness in art and architecture with a view to reconceptualizing their...
The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters i...
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 presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People's Republic of China, the book provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics over time. Besides the epochal range, the papers in this volume illustrate the thematic diversity assembled under the umbrella of the...
The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenome...
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 Indies/Indonesia, China and French Indochina, and a special discussion on 20th-century Cambodia and the temples of Angkor.
The themes examined range from architectural and intellectual history to historic preservation and restoration. Taken together, they offer an overview of historical...
This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the pres...
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how genderis negotiated along the two axes of belonging and longing the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It also probes into the category of transculturality itself, by examining how not onlyit pertains to the coming together of cultures from diverse spatial locations, but how shifts over time and changing performative modes and technological means of articulation within what may be presumed to be the same culture can also lead to the transcultural . The...
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how genderis negotiated along the two axes of belonging and longing the twin desires of being located...
