Cross Cultural Encounters

Author : Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315507958

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History by Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. It studies the spaces between cultures historically to help us transcend human differences today in a rapidly globalizing world. The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments and particularly significant encounters that have changed the direction of world history. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.

Author : Désirée Cappa,James Christie,Lorenza Gay,Hanna Gentili,Finn Schulze-Feldmann
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781622733811

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Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Désirée Cappa,James Christie,Lorenza Gay,Hanna Gentili,Finn Schulze-Feldmann Pdf

This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the multi- and interdisciplinary approach, with papers on a broad range of historical times, places, and subjects. While each essay makes a valuable and original contribution to its relevant field(s), the collection as a whole is an attempt to probe more general questions and issues concerning the productive outcomes of cultural encounters throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The collection is divided into three sections organised thematically and chronologically. The first, ‘Encounters with the Past,’ focuses on the reception of classical antiquity in medieval images and texts from France, Italy and the British Isles. The second, ‘Encounters with Religion,’ presents a selection of instances in which political, philosophical and natural philosophical issues arise within inter-religious contexts. The final section, ‘Encounters with Humanity,’ contains essays on early science fiction, political symbolism, and Elizabethan drama theory, all of which deal with the conception and expression of humanity, on both the individual and societal level. This volume’s wide range of topics and methodological approaches makes it an important point of reference for researchers and practitioners within the humanities who have an interest in the (cross-)cultural history of the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Author : Jacqueline Leckie,Angela McCarthy,Angela Wanhalla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317096665

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Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific by Jacqueline Leckie,Angela McCarthy,Angela Wanhalla Pdf

In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon – whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on ’imperial encounters’ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ’identities’ in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and ’contemporary citizenship’ and the ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and ’race’, heritage and diaspora, through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through blending historical and social science methodologies from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration, mobility and cross-cultural encounters.

Author : Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641906784

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Shakespeare's Cross-cultural Encounters by Geraldo U. de Sousa Pdf

Author : Lise Paulsen Galal,Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030428860

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Organised Cultural Encounters by Lise Paulsen Galal,Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen Pdf

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems perceived to stem from cultural difference. The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture. This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.

Author : Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0195076400

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Old World Encounters by Jerry H. Bentley Pdf

This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of the world religions, and theMongol Empire of the thirteenth century. The author's goal throughout the work is to examine the conditions--political, social, economic, or cultural--that enable one culture to influence, mix with, or suppress another. On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies several distinctivepattern of conversion, conflict, and compromise that emerged from cross-cultural encounters. In doing so, it elucidates that larger historical context of encounters between Europeans and other peoples in modern times. _Old World Encounters_ is ideal for students of world geography, religion, andcivilizations.

Author : Michelle Ying Ling Huang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443839365

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Beyond Boundaries by Michelle Ying Ling Huang Pdf

Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters is a collection of essays which span several countries, centuries and disciplines in their exploration of East-West cultural exchanges and interactions. The chapters are arranged in chronological and thematic order, and encompass the cutting edge research of a diverse group of international scholars. The subjects range from archaeology, art history and photography, to conservation, sociology and cultural studies, with cross-disciplinary examples of classical, modern and contemporary periods. The book seeks to inspire new ideas and stimulate further scholarly debate on the convergence, dissimilarities and mutual influences of the visual arts and material culture of Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of art and cultural history as well as intercultural studies. It will be equally useful to collectors, artists and curators of global art and world cultures.

Author : David Earl Young,David E Young,Jean-Guy Goulet
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015054438596

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Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters by David Earl Young,David E Young,Jean-Guy Goulet Pdf

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Author : Nigel Holden,Snejina Michailova,Susanne Tietze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135105709

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The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management by Nigel Holden,Snejina Michailova,Susanne Tietze Pdf

This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students. With contributions from over 60 authors from 20 countries, the book is organised in to five thematic areas: Review, survey and critique Language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core Cross-cultural management research and education The new international business landscape Rethinking a multidisciplinary paradigm. Edited by an international team of scholars and featuring contributions from a range of leading cross-cultural management experts, this prestigious volume represents the most comprehensive guide to the development and scope of cross-cultural management as an academic discipline.

Author : Kalpana Sahni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136704628

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Multi-stories by Kalpana Sahni Pdf

This unique work explores, through personal narratives, the overlapping and intermingling of cultures as well as the immense cultural diversity across the world. This exploration inevitably questions notions of higher or lower cultures, and civilized or uncivilized peoples. Indeed it questions the very concept of superiority amongst peoples. Apart from cross-cultural encounters, this work also discusses how various democratic and non-democratic governments and organizations have attempted to conceal cross-cultural influences by inventing superiority, purity, and authenticity of cultures and civilizations to the detriment of others. Yet cross-culture pollination, an ongoing process, always reveals itself through the ignored cracks of history. The book shows that India is no exception and has been and continues to be porous. The numerous examples of cross-pollination — with Algeria, Indonesia, Cambodia, to mention a few — force us to re-look cultural constructs and indeed the very meaning of culture.

Author : R. Hampson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230598003

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction by R. Hampson Pdf

This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

Author : Richard W. Brislin
Publisher : New York : Pergamon Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : UCAL:B4235818

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Cross-cultural Encounters, Face-to-face Interaction by Richard W. Brislin Pdf

Based on documentation of face-to-face contact experienced by immigrants, diplomats, overseas students and others, Cross-Cultural Encounters shows how adjustments to cross-cultural contact can be effected. The author also points out the growing significance of cross-cultural interaction due to increasing legal, social, economic and technological exchanges and suggests important new areas of research.

Author : Jasmine C. M. Luk,Angel M. Y. Lin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351571715

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Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters by Jasmine C. M. Luk,Angel M. Y. Lin Pdf

Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities as teachers, learners, and language users, with different pedagogic, institutional, social, and political implications. A range of issues in applied linguistics is addressed, including linguistic imperialism, post-colonial theories, micropolitics of classroom interaction, language and identity, and bilingual classroom practices. Intended to help TESOL professionals of different cultural backgrounds, working in different sociocultural contexts, to critically understand how non-assimilationist, dialogic intercultultural communication with students can be achieved and built on for mutual cultural and linguistic enrichment and empowerment, this book: *emphasizes the sociocultural meanings and micropolitics of classroom interactions that reveal the complex realities of power and identity negotiations in cross-cultural interactions in ELT (English Language Teaching) classroom contexts; *revisits and reconstitutes the notion of native-speakerness and repositions the roles of native and non-native English teachers in the TESOL profession in the contexts of decolonization and globalization; *highlights the need to mobilize intercultural communicative resources for global communication; *addresses two major concerns of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom researchers and teachers: student resistance and learning motivation; and *examines and analyzes the changing ideologies (both explicit and implicit) of teachers and students about English learning in the context of a post-colonial society, and how these ideologies are being enacted, reproduced, but also sometimes contested in EFL classroom interactions. Each chapter includes Questions for Reflection and Discussion to promote critical thinking and understanding of the issues discussed. Tuning-In discussion questions are provided in the three chapters on classroom data analysis to activate readers interpretive schemas before they examine the actual classroom episodes. The data are from an ethnographic study in post-colonial Hong Kong secondary schools involving four native English-speaker teachers and two bilingual Cantonese-English speaking teachers engaged in intercultural classroom dialogues with their Cantonese Hong Kong students. The rich, naturally occurring classroom data and in-depth analyses provide useful pedagogical materials for courses in EFL teacher education programs on classroom discourse analysis from sociocultural perspectives.

Author : Cristina Della Coletta
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781421403656

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When Stories Travel by Cristina Della Coletta Pdf

Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta explores what it means when the translation of fiction into film involves writers, directors, and audiences who belong to national, historical, and cultural formations different from that of the adapted work. In particular, Della Coletta examines narratives and films belonging to Italian, North American, French, and Argentine cultures. These include Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, Federico Fellini’s version of Edgar Allan Poe’s story "Never Bet the Devil Your Head," Alain Corneau’s film based on Antonio Tabucchi’s Notturno indiano, and Bernardo Bertolucci’s take on Jorge Luis Borges’s "Tema del traidor y del héroe." In her framework for analyzing these cross-cultural film adaptations, Della Coletta borrows from the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and calls for a "hermeneutics of estrangement," a practice of mediation and adaptation that defines cultures, nations, selfhoods, and their aesthetic achievements in terms of their transformative encounters. Stories travel to unexpected and interesting places when adapted into film by people of diverse cultures. While the intended meaning of the author may not be perfectly reproduced, it still holds, Della Coletta argues, an equally valid and important intellectual claim upon its interpreters. With a firm grasp on the latest developments in adaptation theory, Della Coletta invites scholars of media studies, cultural history, comparative literature, and adaptation studies to deepen their understanding of this critical encounter between texts, writers, readers, and cultural movements.

Author : Erik R. Seeman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206005

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Death in the New World by Erik R. Seeman Pdf

Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sugar cane fields to the unfamiliar diseases that afflicted Europeans in the Chesapeake and West Indies. According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and Europeans encountered one another, they could not ignore the similarities in their approaches to death. All of these groups believed in an afterlife to which the soul or spirit traveled after death. As a result all felt that corpses—the earthly vessels for the soul or spirit—should be treated with respect, and all mourned the dead with commemorative rituals. Seeman argues that deathways facilitated communication among peoples otherwise divided by language and custom. They observed, asked questions about, and sometimes even participated in their counterparts' rituals. At the same time, insofar as New World interactions were largely exploitative, the communication facilitated by parallel deathways was often used to influence or gain advantage over one's rivals. In Virginia, for example, John Smith used his knowledge of Powhatan deathways to impress the local Indians with his abilities as a healer as part of his campaign to demonstrate the superiority of English culture. Likewise, in the 1610-1614 war between Indians and English, the Powhatans mutilated English corpses because they knew this act would horrify their enemies. Told in a series of engrossing narratives, Death in the New World is a landmark study that offers a fresh perspective on the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters and their larger ramifications in the Atlantic world.