Cultures in Motion.

Rodgers, Daniel T. (Ed.):

ISBN 10: 0691176175 / ISBN 13: 9780691176178

Published by Princeton, Oxford; Princeton University Press, 2017

About this Item

VII, 371 S., Ill. Cultures in Motion. Edited by Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman and Helmut Reimitz. Kopfschnitt teils minimal fleckig. Sonst guter Gesamtzustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 623.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cultures in Motion.
• Publisher: Princeton, Oxford; Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691176175
• ISBN 13: 9780691176178
• Binding: Gr.-8°(=22,5-25cm), Broschiert
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 623 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Geschichte

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Synopsis

In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history.



Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary.


In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.

About the Author

Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. Bhavani Raman is an associate professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Helmut Reimitz is a professor in the Department of History at Princeton University..