Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture / / ed. by Birgit Neumann, Ansgar Nünning.

Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Business and Economics 2000-2014 (EN)
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) , 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (417 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • I. Theoretical Frameworks: Models for the Study of Culture
  • Travelling Concepts as a Model for the Study of Culture
  • Translation – A Concept and Model for the Study of Culture
  • Cultural Transfer
  • Emergence as a Model for the Study of Culture
  • II. KEY CONCEPTS FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE
  • The Underlying Logic of the Study of Culture
  • Culture as Text: Reading and Interpreting Cultures
  • Metaphorical Anastomoses: The Concept of ‘Network’ and its Origins in the Nineteenth Century
  • Narrativist Approaches and Narratological Concepts for the Study of Culture
  • Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative: A Transdisciplinary Discourse Report
  • Gender as a Travelling Concept: A Feminist Perspective
  • Cultural Memory and Memory Cultures
  • Performativity and Performance
  • ‘Stimmung’: The Emergence of a Concept and Its Modifications in Psychology and Physiology
  • Visuality and Visual Culture
  • Space and Cultural Geography
  • From Media Anthropology to Media Ecology
  • Mass Media, Media Culture and Mediatisation
  • Material Culture and Materiality
  • Transnational and Global Perspectives as Travelling Concepts in the Study of Culture
  • Conceptual Transfer: A Cognitive Approach to the Construction, Re-Interpretation and Re-Contextualisation of Academic Concepts
  • Notes on Contributors