Cultures in Motion 1st Edition by Daniel Rodgers, Bhavani Raman, Helmut Reimitz 0691159092 9780691159096

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ISBN 10: 0691159092 

ISBN 13: 9780691159096

Author: Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman, Helmut Reimitz

In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history.

Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing—dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks—remains stationary.

Table of contents:

PART I: The Circulation of Cultural Practices
CHAPTER ONE: The Challenge Dance: Black-Irish Exchange in Antebellum America – April F. Masten
CHAPTER TWO: Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations: Germany, Its Music, and Its Musicians – Celia Applegate
CHAPTER THREE: From Patriae Amator to Amator Pauperum and Back Again: Social Imagination and Social Change in the West between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ca. 300–600 – Peter Brown

PART II: Objects in Transit
CHAPTER FOUR: Knowledge in Motion: Following Itineraries of Matter in the Early Modern World – Pamela H. Smith
CHAPTER FIVE: Fashioning a Market: The Singer Sewing Machine in Colonial Lanka – Nira Wickramasinghe
CHAPTER SIX: Speed Metal, Slow Tropics, Cold War: Alcoa in the Caribbean – Mimi Sheller

PART III: Translations
CHAPTER SEVEN: The True Story of Ah Jake: Language, Labor, and Justice in Late-Nineteenth-Century Sierra County, California – Mae M. Ngai
CHAPTER EIGHT: Creative Misunderstandings: Chinese Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Europe – Harold J. Cook
CHAPTER NINE: Transnational Feminism: Event, Temporality, and Performance at the 1975 International Women’s Year Conference – Jocelyn Olcott

AFTERWORDS
Itinerancy and Power – Bhavani Raman
From Cultures to Cultural Practices and Back Again – Helmut Reimitz

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