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9780511804663
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Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice
Content:
Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521682206
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521863568
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521682206
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cultural mobility Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780521682206
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521863568
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521863562
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521682207
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Print version ISBN 9780521863568
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Kultur
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Mobilität
;
Portugal
;
Kolonialismus
;
Indien
;
Kulturwandel
;
Goa
;
Geschichte 1500-1600
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511804663
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Author information:
Pannewick, Friederike 1966-
Author information:
Paul, Heike 1968-
Author information:
Nyíri, Pál 1972-
Author information:
Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart 1949-
Author information:
Greenblatt, Stephen 1943-
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