Conceptualizing cultural hybridization : a transdisciplinary approach / Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer, editor
- Bib ID:
- 5759667
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Berlin : Springer, ©2012
- ix, 214 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 3642218458
- 9783642218453
- Series:
- Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Questioning Hybridity / Philipp W Stockhammer
- 2.Cultural Hybridity: Between Metaphor and Empiricism / Andreas Ackermann
- 2.1.Introduction
- 2.2.Situating Hybridity
- 2.2.1.Hybridity in Anthropology, Sociology and History
- 2.2.2.Postcolonial Concepts of Hybridity
- 2.3.Metaphors of Hybridity
- 2.3.1.Borrowing
- 2.3.2.Mixing
- 2.3.3.Translating
- 2.4.Researching Hybridity
- 2.4.1.Varieties of Object
- 2.4.2.Varieties of Situation
- 2.4.3.Varieties of Response
- 2.5.Concluding Remarks
- References
- 3.Circulating Objects and the Power of Hybridization as a Localizing Strategy / Hans Peter Hahn
- 3.1.Introduction
- 3.2.The Ambivalence of Globalization Phenomena
- 3.3.Hybridity and the Reformulation of the Concept of Culture in the Era of Globalization
- 3.4.Hybrid Objects Reconsidered
- 3.5.Conclusion
- References
- 4.Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization in Archaeology / Philipp W Stockhammer
- 4.1.Introduction
- Contents note continued: 4.2.Potential and Limitations of Archaeological Sources
- 4.3."Hybridization" in Postcolonial Studies
- 4.4.Terminological Preoccupations
- 4.5.Developing a Concept of Cultural Entanglement
- 4.6.Applying the Concept to the Archaeological Evidence
- References
- 5.One World Is Not Enough: The Transformative Potential of Intercultural Exchange in Prehistoric Societies / Joseph Maran
- 5.1.The Long-Lasting Impact of Culture-Historical Ethnography
- 5.2.Cultural Hybridity
- - A Useful Concept for Archaeology?
- 5.3.Imagined Worlds
- References
- 6.Adjusting the Image
- - Processes of Hybridization in Visual Culture: A Perspective from Early Christian and Byzantine Archaeology / Ute Verstegen
- 6.1.An Example of Iconophobic Activity Without Repair: The Church at Kursi (Palaestina Secunda, Today Israel)
- 6.2.An Example of Iconophobic Activity of Damage and Repair: The Church of Saint Stephen at Umm er-Rasas (Arabia, Today Jordan)
- Contents note continued: 6.3.Early Christian Critique of Images
- 6.4.Muslim Attitudes Towards Images
- 6.5.The Emergence of a Hybrid Visual Culture
- 6.6.Discussing Historical Visual Cultures in the Context of the Actual Discourse of Hybridity
- References
- 7.Transfer of German Human Resource Management Practices: Replication, Localization, Hybridization / Torsten M Kuhlmann
- 7.1.Approaches to the Transfer of Management Practices to Foreign Subsidiaries
- 7.2.Replication
- 7.3.Localization
- 7.4.Hybridization
- 7.5.Transferring HRM Practices from German Headquarters to Chinese Subsidiaries
- 7.6.Methods
- 7.6.1.Data Collection and Sample
- 7.6.2.Measures
- 7.7.Results
- 7.8.Discussion
- References
- 8.From Comparative Politics to Cultural Flow: The Hybrid State, and Resilience of the Political System in India / Subrata K Mitra
- 8.1.Introduction
- 8.2.Comparative Politics of the Indian State: Analysing a Hybrid Reality Through Pure Categories
- Contents note continued: 8.3.The Post-colonial Condition and Hybrid State-Making
- 8.4.Legitimising Power Through Accommodation and Hybridisation
- 8.5.Genealogy of the Post-colonial State: The Conflation of Modernity and Tradition in Gandhi's Satyagraha
- 8.6.The Hybrid Post-colonial State as Both Structure and Agency
- 8.6.1.Ontology of the State: Individualist and Communitarian
- 8.6.2.The Congress "System": Bridging Colonial Rule and Competitive Politics
- 8.6.3.The Economy: Modern, Traditional, Liberal, Socialist and Gandhian, All at the Same Time
- 8.6.4.Self Rule and Shared Rule: Combining Cultural Diversity and the Federal Structure
- 8.6.5.Indian Personal Law: Conflating the Secular State and Sacred Beliefs
- 8.6.6.The Modern State and Cultural Diversity: India's "Three Language Formula"
- 8.6.7.Social Hierarchy and Rational Bureaucracy
- 8.6.8.Public Buildings and Images of the Hybrid State
- Contents note continued: 8.7.Conclusion: Hybrid Modernity as a Solution to Post-colonial Legitimacy Deficit
- References
- 9.Hybridization in Language / Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer
- 9.1.Is Hybridisation Hybrid?
- 9.2.Hybridity and Hybridization in Language
- 9.2.1.The Level of Speech Sounds
- 9.2.2.The Level of Words: Morphemes and Words
- 9.2.3.The Level of Fixed Constructions: Collocations and Idioms
- 9.2.4.The Level of Syntax: Phrases, Clauses and Sentences
- 9.2.5.The Level of Text: Texts, Text Types and Genres
- 9.2.6.The Level of Individual Languages
- 9.2.7.The Level of Communication
- 9.2.8.The Level of Abstraction: Models of Language
- 9.3.Summary and Conclusion
- References
- 10.New Zealand English: A History of Hybridization / Daniela Wawra
- 10.1.Introduction
- 10.2.Methods
- 10.3.The Beginnings of New Zealand English as a Variety in Its Own Right
- 10.4.Special Features of the New Zealand Accent Today in Comparison to Received Pronunciation
- Contents note continued: 10.5.Theories About the Development of the New Zealand Accent
- 10.5.1.Lay Theories
- 10.5.2.Single Origin Theories
- 10.5.3.Multiple Origin Theories
- 10.6.Theories About the Development of Varieties
- 10.6.1.Deterministic-Mechanistic Approach
- 10.6.2.Sociolinguistic Approaches
- 10.6.3.Cognitive-Biological Approach
- 10.7.Conclusion
- References
- 11.From Myths and Symbols to Culture as Text: Hybridity, Literature and American Studies / Carsten Schinko
- 11.1.Preliminary Remarks
- 11.2.American Studies, or the Roads to Hybridity
- 11.2.1.Genealogies and Changing Self-descriptions
- 11.2.2.Aesthetic Continuities
- 11.3.The Dislocation of Culture, or Acts of Reading
- 11.3.1.The Politics of Poststructuralist Postcolonialism
- 11.3.2.In-Between Politics and Aesthetics
- 11.3.3.Cultural Difference and the Otherness of Literature
- References
- Contents note continued: 12.The Agony of the Signified: Towards a Usage-Based Theory of Meaning and Society / Remigius Bunia
- 12.1.Towards a Theory of Communication
- 12.1.1.Some Remarks on the History of Semiotics
- 12.1.2.Words Are Things (Signs Versus Ordinary Things)
- 12.1.3.Mental Signs
- 12.2.Social and Performative Signs
- 12.2.1.Abstract Signs and Sentences
- 12.3.The Supremacy of Language
- 12.3.1.Conditions and Modularization
- 12.3.2.Two Digressive Remarks
- 12.4.Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Cultural fusion
- Other authors/contributors:
- Stockhammer, Philipp
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