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Author |
: Audrey Truschke |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 503 |
Release |
: 2016-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231540971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231540973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture of Encounters by : Audrey Truschke
Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mughal-backed texts they and their Mughal interlocutors produced under emperors Akbar, Jahangir (1605–1627), and Shah Jahan (1628–1658). Many works, including Sanskrit epics and historical texts, were translated into Persian, elevating the political position of Brahmans and Jains and cultivating a voracious appetite for Indian writings throughout the Mughal world. The first book to read these Sanskrit and Persian works in tandem, Culture of Encounters recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty. The work also reframes the development of Brahman and Jain communities under Mughal rule, which coalesced around carefully selected, politically salient memories of imperial interaction. Along with its groundbreaking findings, Culture of Encounters certifies the critical role of the sociology of empire in building the Mughal polity, which came to irrevocably shape the literary and ruling cultures of early modern India.
Author |
: Angela L. Miller |
Publisher |
: Prentice Hall |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0130300047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780130300041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Encounters by : Angela L. Miller
"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.
Author |
: Jane E. Goodman |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2020-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253049636 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253049636 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Staging Cultural Encounters by : Jane E. Goodman
Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City. Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.
Author |
: Elizabeth Hallam |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2013-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136289996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136289992 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Encounters by : Elizabeth Hallam
Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.
Author |
: Melani McAlister |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2005-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520932012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520932013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epic Encounters by : Melani McAlister
Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.
Author |
: Lise Paulsen Galal |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2020-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030428860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030428869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Organised Cultural Encounters by : Lise Paulsen Galal
This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems perceived to stem from cultural difference. The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture. This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.
Author |
: Benno Gammerl |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2019-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789202243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789202248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encounters with Emotions by : Benno Gammerl
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
Author |
: Stevan Harrell |
Publisher |
: Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 029599892X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780295998923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers by : Stevan Harrell
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.
Author |
: Jerry H. Bentley |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195076400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195076400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Old World Encounters by : Jerry H. Bentley
This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of the world religions, and theMongol Empire of the thirteenth century. The author's goal throughout the work is to examine the conditions--political, social, economic, or cultural--that enable one culture to influence, mix with, or suppress another. On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies several distinctivepattern of conversion, conflict, and compromise that emerged from cross-cultural encounters. In doing so, it elucidates that larger historical context of encounters between Europeans and other peoples in modern times. _Old World Encounters_ is ideal for students of world geography, religion, andcivilizations.
Author |
: Elizabeth Hallam |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2013-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136290060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136290060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Encounters by : Elizabeth Hallam
Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.