ABSTRACT
Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field’s central methodological concepts and terms.
Based on a wide range of case studies, the book is divided into twenty-seven chapters across which cultural, social, and political issues relating to transculturality from Antiquity to today and within both Asian and European regions are explored. Key terms related to the field of transculturality are also discussed within each chapter, and the rich variety of approaches provided by the contributing authors offer the reader an expansive look into the field of transculturality.
Offering a wealth of expertise, and equipped with a selection of illustrations, this book will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields within the Humanities and Social Sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part A|106 pages
Delineating transculturality
chapter 3|13 pages
Global connections in transcultural research
chapter 4|13 pages
Not ‘cultures’, but culture!
part B|46 pages
Trancultural spaces and agents
chapter 8|13 pages
Exploring the contact zone
chapter 10|17 pages
Mobility, mediation and transculturation in the medieval Mediterranean
part C|44 pages
Transcultural temporalities
chapter 11|15 pages
Transversal histories and transcultural afterlives
part D|94 pages
Transcultural semantics
chapter 15|12 pages
Islamic law with Chinese characteristics
chapter 17|17 pages
Cultural heritage and architectural history between appropriation, substitution and translation
part E|136 pages
The transcultural lens