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Chaos in the Contact Zone : Unpredictability, Improvisation and the Struggle for Control in Cultural Encounters / ed. by Christoph Behrens, Stephanie Wodianka.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 94Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839433898
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48209 23
LOC classification:
  • HM621 .C476 2017
  • HM621 .C43 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- The Emergence and Domestication of Chaos in the Contact Zone -- The “Jewish Indian Theory” -- On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in Early Modern Contact Zones -- Islands in the Maelstrom -- Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood -- Walking Backwards to the Future, Facing the Past -- Many Worlds, Many Stories -- The Contingency of Cultural Negotiations in Cross-Border Networks -- Unexpected Outcomes of the Portuguese Encounter in Sri Lanka -- Enriching Repertoires -- From Early Country Blues to Rap -- Authors
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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- The Emergence and Domestication of Chaos in the Contact Zone -- The “Jewish Indian Theory” -- On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in Early Modern Contact Zones -- Islands in the Maelstrom -- Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood -- Walking Backwards to the Future, Facing the Past -- Many Worlds, Many Stories -- The Contingency of Cultural Negotiations in Cross-Border Networks -- Unexpected Outcomes of the Portuguese Encounter in Sri Lanka -- Enriching Repertoires -- From Early Country Blues to Rap -- Authors

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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