Publication

2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,250 words, Guess

Page Count

233 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC303.48/209
  • LCCHN13 .C76 2012

Description

"Through case studies spanning Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, this book illuminates our understanding of what happens when different cultures meet. Twelve cultural historians explore the mechanism and inner dynamic of such encounters, and demonstrate that while they often occur on the wave of global forces and influences, they only acquire meaning locally, where culture inherently resides. The authors shine a light into the nature of this process by showing that traditional, macro-scale frameworks of interpretation are too abstract and general to capture change caused by cross-cultural contacts, and that such change can come about only at the grassroots level because that is where the domestication of otherness takes place"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Cross-cultural history and the domestication of othernessPalgrave Macmillan2012-01-01

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