Transcultural Areas [electronic resource] /
Berg, Wolfgang.editor.
Based on culture as a complex system of rules it is too obvious that each rule has a particular range which is only exceptionally congruent with national or natural borders. In general, cultural exchange is not limited by political borders or rivers, forests, seas, or mountains. Those areas are rather transcultural, which is especially true for markets and towns. Dealing with cities like Buenos Aires or Riga, regions like Podlachia (Poland), Northern Ireland, or Bukovina, and the area of the Danube river the case studies give evidence for this thesis. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of cultural and intercultural studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents; Transculturality; Rules and Tools; Cultural Items; Ranges, no Borders; Transcultural Personalities; Areas; Towns; Border Regions; Sea and Rivers; Roads; Media and Global Products; Buenos Aires; The History of Buenos Aires; The Language of Lunfardo; Tango; Architecture; Kitchen; Conclusion; References; Riga; Diversity; The Demography; Ethnicity and Language; Language Policy; Housing and Life Style; Culture and Arts; Russification; Transcultural Personalities; Two Cross-Cultural Events; Politics; Intermediate Groups; Conclusion; References
Northern Ireland: Space and Identity PerformanceThe Irish Border; The Borderlands; BelFast's Murals; Interfaces; Peace, Forgetting and Moving on from the Past; Conclusion: Swapping Binarism for Transculturalism?; References; Transculturality of Podlachia. Revitalization of Borderland Tradition; Podlachia; Periphery or Borderland?; Old History; Podlachia in the Middle Ages; Modern Times; Local Culture; Revitalization; Calendar; Architecture; Bukovyna: Fading Diversity; Myths of Austrian Bukovyna; Romanians and Ukrainians; Germans and Jews; Tolerance; World War I; Romanian Government
Soviet ModelToday; Daily Life; Down by the Riverside; Waterway; Fords and Bridges; Elbe (Labe); Isar; Danube; The Neman River; History; Religion; Emblem; Vilnius; Hrodna; Suprasl; Literature; Conclusion; Tornio Borderline Living; A Village Split in Half: Overtorneå and Ylitornio; Everyday Living during 1960-1980; Social Interactions and Cooperation; Borderless Border; Conclusive Words; Markets Are Transcultural; Market Rules; Exchange; Munich; Magdeburg; Travel Literature; Krakow and Zamosc; Hanse; Diversity and Commonalities; Contributors
Includes bibliographical references.
Based on culture as a complex system of rules it is too obvious that each rule has a particular range which is only exceptionally congruent with national or natural borders. In general, cultural exchange is not limited by political borders or rivers, forests, seas, or mountains. Those areas are rather transcultural, which is especially true for markets and towns. Dealing with cities like Buenos Aires or Riga, regions like Podlachia (Poland), Northern Ireland, or Bukovina, and the area of the Danube river the case studies give evidence for this thesis. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of cultural and intercultural studies.
Sociology.
Social sciences.
Knowledge - Discourse.
Social Sciences, general.
Sociology, general.