LEADER 04304oam 2200889 c 450 001 9910617302503321 005 20231005201052.0 010 $a3-8309-8002-7 024 3 $a9783830980025 035 $a(CKB)4330000000531396 035 $a(Waxmann)9783830980025 035 $a(ScCtBLL)0618faac-cbd8-479f-a810-c80e6faad1ef 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000531396 100 $a20220221d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnunnnannuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAgents of Transculturation$eBorder-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens$b[electronic resource]$fSebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun 205 $a1st, New ed. 210 $aMu?nster$cWaxmann$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.)$cwith numerous illustrations 225 0 $aCultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship$v6 311 $a3-8309-3002-X 330 $aEver 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. 410 $aCultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 606 $aDragomans as cultural brokers 606 $aYuhanna al-Asad 606 $aHurons 606 $aIroquoians 606 $aFrench Agents 606 $aSu?leyman Pasa Seve 606 $aPirate Science 606 $aCoastal Knowledge 606 $aJoseph Jenkins 606 $aKa Hoku o Osiania 606 $aChannappa Uttangi 606 $aTranscultural Mediation 606 $aClaude Levi-Strauss 606 $aRoberto Ipureau 606 $aHistorical periods between the early modern period and the present 606 $aMediterranean 606 $aAfrica 606 $athe America 606 $aHawaii 606 $aNew Zealand 606 $aEpochenu?bergreifend 615 4$aDragomans as cultural brokers 615 4$aYuhanna al-Asad 615 4$aHurons 615 4$aIroquoians 615 4$aFrench Agents 615 4$aSu?leyman Pasa Seve 615 4$aPirate Science 615 4$aCoastal Knowledge 615 4$aJoseph Jenkins 615 4$aKa Hoku o Osiania 615 4$aChannappa Uttangi 615 4$aTranscultural Mediation 615 4$aClaude Levi-Strauss 615 4$aRoberto Ipureau 615 4$aHistorical periods between the early modern period and the present 615 4$aMediterranean 615 4$aAfrica 615 4$athe America 615 4$aHawaii 615 4$aNew Zealand 615 4$aEpochenu?bergreifend 702 $aJobs$b Sebastian$4edt 702 $aMackenthun$b Gesa$f1959-$4edt 801 0$bWaxmann 801 1$bWaxmann 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910617302503321 996 $aAgents of Transculturation$92953602 997 $aUNINA