Culture of Encounters

Culture of Encounters
Author: Audrey Truschke
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231540973

Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mughal-backed texts they and their Mughal interlocutors produced under emperors Akbar, Jahangir (1605–1627), and Shah Jahan (1628–1658). Many works, including Sanskrit epics and historical texts, were translated into Persian, elevating the political position of Brahmans and Jains and cultivating a voracious appetite for Indian writings throughout the Mughal world. The first book to read these Sanskrit and Persian works in tandem, Culture of Encounters recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty. The work also reframes the development of Brahman and Jain communities under Mughal rule, which coalesced around carefully selected, politically salient memories of imperial interaction. Along with its groundbreaking findings, Culture of Encounters certifies the critical role of the sociology of empire in building the Mughal polity, which came to irrevocably shape the literary and ruling cultures of early modern India.

Encountering Cultures

Encountering Cultures
Author: Richard Holeton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Encountering Cultures is a composition reader that explores issues of language and culture, domestic cultural diversity, and global cultural diversity with an unprecedented range if reading, authors, and viewpoints. The premise of the second edition, like the first, is that increasing cultural diversity in North America can best be understood in a global, context; the forth-three 'Brief Encounters' and fifty-nine full-length selections emphasize interactions across cultural boundaries of all types, both at home and abroad. The new thematic arrangement of reading and the enhanced editorial apparatus offer a comprehensive view of cultural issues and facilitate a critical thinking approach.

Encountering Cultures

Encountering Cultures
Author: Richard Holeton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780132763790

Encountering Cultures is a composition reader that explores issues of language and culture, domestic cultural diversity, and global cultural diversity with an unprecedented range if reading, authors, and viewpoints. The premise of the second edition, like the first, is that increasing cultural diversity in North America can best be understood in a global, context; the forth-three 'Brief Encounters' and fifty-nine full-length selections emphasize interactions across cultural boundaries of all types, both at home and abroad. The new thematic arrangement of reading and the enhanced editorial apparatus offer a comprehensive view of cultural issues and facilitate a critical thinking approach.

Cultural Encounters

Cultural Encounters
Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1136289992

Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.

American Encounters

American Encounters
Author: Angela L. Miller
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 9780130300041

"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.

Staging Cultural Encounters

Staging Cultural Encounters
Author: Jane E. Goodman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253049636

Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City. Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.

Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History

Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History
Author: Thomas Hertel
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Middle East
ISBN: 9788763543873

Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide--which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important. Fortunately, we have a powerful historical example to draw on: the closely knit, yet very different cultures that inhabited and interacted in the Near East. Contributors look at the interactions of nomads, traders, religious groups, armies, and more to help answer questions about cultural encounters through both theoretical and empirical lenses. They present cases drawn from a range of fields within the overall history of the Near East, including Mesopotamian history, the rise of Islam, and the effects of Hellenism.

Encounters with Emotions

Encounters with Emotions
Author: Benno Gammerl
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789202248

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Encountering Morocco

Encountering Morocco
Author: David Crawford
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253009197

Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it means to take up residence in a place where one is regarded as an outsider, learn the language and local customs, and struggle to develop rapport. Moving reflections on friendship, kinship, and belief within the cross-cultural encounter reveal why study of Moroccan society has played such a seminal role in the development of cultural anthropology.

Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present

Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present
Author: Alt?nöz, Meltem Özkan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-02-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799894401

Cultures around the world have recently become more isolated and aggressive in defending their socio-cultural domain. However, throughout history, many civilizations have established extensive and long-term cultural ties with diverse cultural groups. Despite ideological schisms that emerged between civilizations from time to time, our hunger for cultural encounters and coexistence shines through. Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present sheds light on different histories and presents evidence of cultural encounters, coexistence, and acculturation. This publication presents cultural assets as more mobile than ideologies across boundaries as it can be more often seen in the cultural arena. Covering topics such as the effects of colonialism, geometrical forms, and architectural heritage, it serves as an essential resource for architects, art historians, cultural historians, students and professors of higher education, sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, and academicians.