04339oam 2200913 c 450 991061730250332120231005201052.0978383098002538309800279783830980025(CKB)4330000000531396(Waxmann)9783830980025(ScCtBLL)0618faac-cbd8-479f-a810-c80e6faad1ef(EXLCZ)99433000000053139620220221d2013 uy 0engurnnunnnannuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAgents of Transculturation Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens /Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun1st, New ed.MünsterWaxmann20131 online resource (316 p.)with numerous illustrationsCultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship69783830930020 383093002X Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic relied on the mediating agency of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and languages of both cultures involved in the contact. Other border crossers and go-betweens acted as missionaries, traders, political refugees, beachcombers, pirates, anthropologists, actors in zoos, runaway slaves, and itinerant doctors. Because of their frequently precarious lives, the written traces left by these figures are often thin. While some of their lives have to be carefully reconstructed through critical readings of the documents left by others (frequently by their enemies), others have left autobiographical texts which allow for a richer assessment of their function as cultural border crossers and mediators. With examples covering from various historical periods between the early modern period and the present, as well as geographical areas such as the Mediterranean, Africa, the Americas, Hawaii, New Zealand and northern Europe, scholars from various disciplines and methodological backgrounds - reaching from history to religious studies and from literary studies to ethnology - fathom the intricacies of in-betweenness and reflect on the impact which "agents of transculturation" have in situations of cultural, social and political encounters.Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of ScholarshipDragomans as cultural brokersYuhanna al-AsadHuronsIroquoiansFrench AgentsSüleyman Pasa SevePirate ScienceCoastal KnowledgeJoseph JenkinsKa Hoku o OsianiaChannappa UttangiTranscultural MediationClaude Levi-StraussRoberto IpureauHistorical periods between the early modern period and the presentMediterraneanAfricathe AmericaHawaiiNew ZealandEpochenübergreifendDragomans as cultural brokersYuhanna al-AsadHuronsIroquoiansFrench AgentsSüleyman Pasa SevePirate ScienceCoastal KnowledgeJoseph JenkinsKa Hoku o OsianiaChannappa UttangiTranscultural MediationClaude Levi-StraussRoberto IpureauHistorical periods between the early modern period and the presentMediterraneanAfricathe AmericaHawaiiNew ZealandEpochenübergreifendJobs SebastianedtMackenthun Gesa1959-edtWaxmannWaxmannBOOK9910617302503321Agents of Transculturation2953602UNINA