The Resource Agents of transculturation : border-crossers, mediators, go-betweens, Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.)
Agents of transculturation : border-crossers, mediators, go-betweens, Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.)
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- Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic relied on the mediating agency of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and languages of both cultures involved in the contact. Other border crossers and go-betweens acted as missionaries, traders, political refugees, beachcombers, pirates, anthropologists, actors in zoos, runaway slaves, and itinerant doctors. Because of their frequently precarious lives, the written traces left by these figures are often thin. While some of their lives have to be carefully reconstructed through critical readings of the documents left by others (frequently by their enemies), others have left autobiographical texts which allow for a richer assessment of their function as cultural border crossers and mediators.With examples covering from various historical periods between the early modern period and the present, as well as geographical areas such as the Mediterranean, Africa, the Americas, Hawaii, New Zealand and northern Europe, scholars from various disciplines and methodological backgrounds reaching from history to religious studies and from literary studies to ethnology fathom the intricacies of in-betweenness and reflect on the impact which 'agents of transculturation' have in situations of cultural, social and political encounters.--
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- eng
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- Agents of transculturation : border-crossers, mediators, go-betweens
- Title
- Agents of transculturation
- Title remainder
- border-crossers, mediators, go-betweens
- Statement of responsibility
- Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic relied on the mediating agency of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and languages of both cultures involved in the contact. Other border crossers and go-betweens acted as missionaries, traders, political refugees, beachcombers, pirates, anthropologists, actors in zoos, runaway slaves, and itinerant doctors. Because of their frequently precarious lives, the written traces left by these figures are often thin. While some of their lives have to be carefully reconstructed through critical readings of the documents left by others (frequently by their enemies), others have left autobiographical texts which allow for a richer assessment of their function as cultural border crossers and mediators.With examples covering from various historical periods between the early modern period and the present, as well as geographical areas such as the Mediterranean, Africa, the Americas, Hawaii, New Zealand and northern Europe, scholars from various disciplines and methodological backgrounds reaching from history to religious studies and from literary studies to ethnology fathom the intricacies of in-betweenness and reflect on the impact which 'agents of transculturation' have in situations of cultural, social and political encounters.--
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- 940.2
- 303.48209
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- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cultural encounters and the discourses of scholarship
- Series volume
- 6
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- Acculturation
- Transnationalism
- Mediators (Persons)
- Intercultural communication
- Cultural relations
- Cross-cultural studies
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- Agents of transculturation : border-crossers, mediators, go-betweens, Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.)
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- Research report
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- ocn882075147
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9783830930020
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)882075147
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- Agents of transculturation : border-crossers, mediators, go-betweens, Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.)
- Note
- Research report
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn882075147
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9783830930020
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)882075147
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