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Chaos in the contact zone : unpredictability, improvisation and the struggle for control in cultural encounters / Stephanie Wodianka, Christoph Behrens (eds.).
- Title
- Chaos in the contact zone : unpredictability, improvisation and the struggle for control in cultural encounters / Stephanie Wodianka, Christoph Behrens (eds.).
- Publication
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are the main issues discussed in this volume. The contributions show that chaos and control are not mutually exclusive in the "contact zone" (Mary Louise Pratt); on the contrary, they stand in relation to each other - be it as a competence or as an interpretive scheme.
- Series Statement
- Culture & theory
- Alternative Title
- Unpredictability, improvisation and the struggle for control in cultural encounters
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Proceedings of symposium held at the University of Rostock, 2015.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Includes abstracts in French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Emergence and Domestication of Chaos in the Contact Zone : "The Rusty Giant from Rostock" or the "Koloss von Züros" / Stephanie Wodianka -- The "Jewish Indian Theory" : The Problem of the Origin of the American Populations / Nathan Wachtel -- On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in Early Modern Contact Zones / Peter Burschel -- Islands in the Maelstrom : East German Families' Coping with Chaos in the Unification Contact Zone / Olaf Reis -- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood : Stories of Misunderstandings, Concepts of Culture and the Process of European Expansion / Christina Brauner -- Walking Backwards to the Future, Facing the Past : The Conception of Time in Andean Philosophy / Josef Estermann -- Many Worlds, Many Stories : Towards a Multiplication of Perspectives on Early Modern Cultural Encounters / Sünne Juterczenka -- The Contingency of Cultural Negotiations in Cross-Border Networks : The BRICS Case / Yvette Sánchez -- Unexpected Outcomes of the Portuguese Encounter in Sri Lanka : Innovation and Hybridity / Shihan de Silva Jayasuria -- Enriching Repertoires : Code-Blending and Linguistic Transfer in the Contact Zone / Anja Voeste -- From Early Country Blues to Rap / Uwe Zagratzki -- Authors.
- ISBN
- 9783837633894
- 3837633896
- 9783839433898 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 992698946
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library