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Points of contact : crossing cultural boundaries
- Title
- Points of contact : crossing cultural boundaries / edited by Amy Golahny.
- Publication
- Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, 2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Golahny, Amy.
- Description
- 157 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This collection of eight essays examines specific cases of contacts between Pacific Rim and western European cultures to explore the phenomena of appropriations, intersections, transculturations, and discrete identities. The exchanges in ideas, religion, and culture resulting from contacts among these areas, whether through actual or virtual travel, indicate mutual affinities and occasionally interdependencies, but also separate and independent identities. Each of these essays concerns the portability, mutability, and adaptability of aspects of the exchange of ideas, and, in nearly all cases here examined, an affirmation of identity on the part of each culture in the exchange. The cases of intersections examined here generally indicate developments of cultures approaching one another and then retrenching."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Bucknell review ; v. 47, no. 2
- Uniform Title
- Bucknell review ; v. 47, no. 2.
- Alternative Title
- Crossing cultural boundaries
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction / Amy Golahny -- Finding inspiration in the Far East : the two different best possible worlds of Leibniz / Yu Liu -- New perspectives of the Jesuits and science in China : 1600-1800 / Benjamin A. Elman -- Wisselwerkingen redux : Ceramics, Asia, and the Netherlands / Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- The body of the Saracen princess in La Belle Helene de Constantinople / Valentina Jones-Wagner -- Blurring distinctions : autobiography and identity in Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines / Thomas R. Smith -- The Falun Gong : a virtual meeting of East and West / Vaughan McTernan -- Hrnong in transition / Sheila Pinkel -- Zero and one : toward a Buddhist-Jewish interfaith dialogue / Todd Lavin.
- ISBN
- 0838756026
- OCLC
- ocm55880926
- SCSB-5081381
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries