04017oam 2200805 c 450 991056309860332120260102090118.0978383097548938309754819783830975489(CKB)4330000000531082(Waxmann)9783830975489(ScCtBLL)f3a08a82-c2b9-4dfd-ad3d-aa51e7165507(oapen)doab81482(oapen)doab97532(EXLCZ)99433000000053108220260102d2011 uy 0engurnnunnnannuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmbodiments of Cultural Encounters /Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun1st, New ed.MünsterWaxmann20111 online resource (272 p.)mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen AbbildungenCultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship39783830925484 3830925484 The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and present-day settings. Bodies were and are not only markers of cultural identity and difference, endlessly inscribed and represented as the ‘body politic’ or ‘the exotic other’; as battlegrounds of cross-cultural signification and identification bodies are also potential agents of change. While some essays address the elusiveness of the ‘real’ or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations – their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. Yet, as the volume also shows, formerly colonized people, far from subjecting themselves completely to Western discourses of physical discipline, retain traditional body practices – whether in food culture, religious ritual, or musical performances. Such local reinscriptions escape the grip of Western culture and transform the global semantics of the body.This impressive publication [...] is part of a valuable series of intellectual explorations in negotiating the intercultural journey. – Bruce Harding in: Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte, 13/2013Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of ScholarshipBodies and Cultural EncountersHerman MelvilleHistory of TattooingSame-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial ArchiveSexualities in the French Foreign LegionAfrican Pentecostal-type ChristianityGerman Ethnic ShowsEthnographic DioramasEthnological MuseumsBaliGuatemalaOaxacaAndeanNew EnglandFrauen- und GeschlechterforschungBodies and Cultural EncountersHerman MelvilleHistory of TattooingSame-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial ArchiveSexualities in the French Foreign LegionAfrican Pentecostal-type ChristianityGerman Ethnic ShowsEthnographic DioramasEthnological MuseumsBaliGuatemalaOaxacaAndeanNew EnglandFrauen- und GeschlechterforschungJobs SebastianedtMackenthun GesaedtWaxmannWaxmannBOOK9910563098603321Embodiments of Cultural Encounters2837302UNINA