Cultures in motion
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Cultures in motion
Princeton University Press, 2017, c2014
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"Publications in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--Facing t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii Cultures in Motion: An Introduction Daniel T. Rodgers 1 PART I: The Circulation of Cultural Practices 21 CHAPTER ONE: The Challenge Dance: Black-Irish Exchange in Antebellum America April F. Masten 23 CHAPTER TWO: Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations: Germany, Its Music, and Its Musicians Celia Applegate 60 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 87 PART II: Objects in Transit 107 CHAPTER FOUR: Knowledge in Motion: Following Itineraries of Matter in the Early Modern World Pamela H. Smith 109 CHAPTER FIVE: Fashioning a Market: The Singer Sewing Machine in Colonial Lanka Nira Wickramasinghe 134 CHAPTER SIX: Speed Metal, Slow Tropics, Cold War: Alcoa in the Caribbean Mimi Sheller 165 PART III: Translations 195 CHAPTER SEVEN: The True Story of Ah Jake: Language, Labor, and Justice in Late-Nineteenth-Century Sierra County, California Mae M. Ngai 197 CHAPTER EIGHT: Creative Misunderstandings: Chinese Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Europe Harold J. Cook 215 CHAPTER NINE: Transnational Feminism: Event, Temporality, and Performance at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference Jocelyn Olcott 241 AFTERWORDS 267-278 Itinerancy and Power Bhavani Raman 267 From Cultures to Cultural Practices and Back Again Helmut Reimitz 270 List of Papers 279 List of Contributors 283 Notes 285 Index 357
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