This successful collection of essays focuses on the inherent instability of cultural spheres and the increasing recognition that traditional models of comparative, global, and transcultural/transnational investigation do not do justice to the complexities of human history. Cultures in Motion defines the contours of a new way of thinking and researching cultural history.
Patrick J. Geary, Institute for Advanced Study ... Read moreThis book provides a new approach to finding a language to describe the new realities that emerge from the interactions of geographically or temporally different cultural practices, material objects, and languages, as they meet in a given, shared space. The essays are engaging in subject matter and persuasively written, and the introduction is superb.
Barbara Metcalf, professor of history emerita, University of California, Davis Cultures in Motion represents first-rate scholarship and opens up a critical new space for historiography. Exploring the movement of things, ideas, and other cultural forms, the book
and the introduction in particular
gives an independent existence and importance to such work, and raises original questions about historical change and intercultural understandings.
Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations Show Less