The dynamics of transculturality : concepts and institutions in motion / Antje Flüchter, Jivanta Schöttli, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flüchter, Antje, editor.

Schöttli, Jivanta, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context

Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context, 2191-656X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cross-cultural studies.

Asia--Civilization.

Asia.

Civilization.

Europe--Civilization.

Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 277 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2015]

Contents:

Marxism, modernity, and revolution: the Asian experience / Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

From religious contact to scientific comparison and back: some methodological considerations on comparative perspectives in the science of religion / Volkhard Krech

Hippodamos and Phoenicia: on city planning and social order in a transcultural context / Nicolas Zenzen

A forgotten landscape of the forms of government: the case for the counterfactual history of political theory / David Mervart

Military intelligence and early modern warfare: the Dutch East India Company and China 1622-1624 / Barend Noordam

'Cultural citizenship' and media representation in India: towards a trans-policy approach / Lion König

The era of crowds: Gustave Le Bon, crowd psychology, and conceptualizations of mass-elite relations in China / Mareike Ohlberg

The goddess's new clothes: conceptualising an 'Eastern' goddess for a 'Western' audience / Svenja Nagel

Across Central Asia: cultural crossroads, religious interactions? The monastery, H.2153 fol. 131v, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul / Nicoletta Fazio

Importing and exporting gods? On the flow of deities between Egypt and its neighboring countries / Joachim Friedrich Quack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

3319097393

9783319097398

OCLC:

884538897

Publisher Number:

99961214381