Cultures in Motion
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Published on 16. June 2015
384 pages
978-1-4008-4989-5 (ISBN)
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Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. Bhavani Raman is an associate professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Helmut Reimitz is a professor in the Department of History at Princeton University.
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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
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
