The dynamics of transculturality : concepts and institutions in motion /: concepts and institutions in motion. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Antje Flüchter, Jivanta Schöttli, editors.
• Editors: Flüchter, Antje; Schöttli, Jivanta
• Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Conceptual considerations -- Marxism, Modernity, and Revolution: The Asian Experience -- From Religious Contact to Scientific Comparison and back. Some Methodological Considerations on Comparative Perspectives in the Science of Religion -- Part II. Politics and flow -- Hippodamos and Phoenicia: On city Planning and Social Order in a Transcultural Context -- A Forgotten Landscape of the Form of Government -- Military Intelligence and Early Modern Warfare. The Dutch East India Company and China 1622-1624 -- 'Cultural Citizenship' and Media Representation in India: Towards a Trans-Policy Approach -- The Era of Crowds: Gustave Le Bon, Crowd Psychology, and Conceptualising of Mass-Elite Relations in China -- Part III. Religion and flow -- The Goddess's New Clothes. Conceptualising an 'Eastern' Goddess for a 'Western' Audience -- Across Central Asia: Cultural Crossroads, Religious Interactions? The Monastery, H.2153 fol. 131v, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul -- Importing and Exporting Gods? On the Flow of Deities between Egypt and its Neighboring Countries.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 306; Cross-cultural studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Cross-cultural studies; Kulturstudier; Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences; Social Change; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319097404; 3319097407; 3319097393; 9783319097398
• Related ISBNs: 9783319097398
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 10, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.