Cross-cultural history and the domestication of otherness [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki, George O. Ndege.

• PART I: RECOVERING HIDDEN IDENTITIES: MORISCOS AND CONVERSOS The Converso Phenomenon and the Issue of Spanish Identity-- K.Ingram Heretics, Christians, Jews? Jewish Converts and Inquisitors in the Early Modern World-- G.Starr-LeBeau Disappearing Moriscos-- W.Childers PART II: MISSIONARIES AS CULTURAL BROKERS Adapting Language to Culture: Translation Projects of the Jesuit Missions in Japan and China-- W.J.Farge Jesuits in the United States Southwest during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Agents and Chroniclers of Cross-Cultural Ministry and History-- E.C.Fernandez The Task of Gender Role Differentiation in Foreign Missions: The Case of American Methodists in Rosario, Argentina, 1870-1880-- M.McMeley PART III: AFRICA: AGENCY, CONTESTATION, ACCULTURATION Africanizing Christianity: Cross-Cultural History and Conceptual Ways Forward-- P.Kollman Conflict and Compromise: Western Biomedicine and Cultural Contestation in Colonial Kenya-- G.Ndege PART IV: CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS Genealogies, Geopolitics, and Governance: The Indigenization of the Native Nation and U.S. Colony of Hawai'i, 1874-1904-- C.Skwiot Lessons in Whiteness: German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth Century America-- K.Anderson Across the Alps: Italian Religious Culture in French Translation-- T.Worcester PART V: THE PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF CROSS-CULTURAL HISTORY Cross-Cultural History: Toward an Interdisciplinary Theory-- M.J.Rozbicki.

• This book illuminates our understanding of what happens when different cultures meet. Twelve cultural historians explore the mechanism and inner dynamic of such encounters, and demonstrate that while they often occur on the wave of global forces and influences, they only acquire meaning locally, where culture inherently resides. -- Through case studies spanning Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, this book illuminates our historical understanding of what happens when different cultures meet. Here, twelve cultural historians explore the mechanism and inner dynamic of such encounters, and demonstrate that while they often occur within a global context, they only acquire meaning locally, where culture inherently resides. The contributors show that traditional, macro-scale frameworks of interpretation are too abstract and general to capture change caused by cross-cultural contacts, and that such change can come about only at the grassroots level, where the domestication of otherness takes place. 

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