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The meta-literary history of cultural transmitters and forgotten scholars in the midst of transnational literary history Ghent University
A cultural transfer history : possibilities and prerequisities : the case of Henriette Roland Holst, Martha Muusses and Hagar Olsson Ghent University
In ”A Cultural Transfer History: Possibilities and Prerequisites. The Case of Henriette Roland Holst, Martha Muusses and Hagar Olsson”, Petra Broomans states that both successful and unsuccessful cultural transfers are equally important for understanding the history and dynamics of cultural transfer. Through the example of the Dutch writer Holst and her translators, she brings forward the transmitters and their circumstances, and stresses the ...
Perspectives for a comparative cultural history of the Ostend company interactions in Bengal and China Ghent University
Taking the source material of the Ostend Company's 18th century maritime trading activities into China and Bengal as a vantage point, this article explores its potential for a comparative history on cultural interaction in the Indian Ocean world. It compares how agents from this Company engaged in cultural interaction as a prerequisite for further economic interaction. Beyond a colonial or econocentric approach, it takes an anthropological ...
History matters : authenticity and cultural guardianship Ghent University
A Cultural History of Food Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A Cultural History of Food is a set of six volumes that covers the history of food from Antiquity to the present. About 60 authors have contributed to it, under the guidance of Fabio Parasecoli and Peter Scholliers. Each volume has an editor: Paul Erdkamp (Antiquity), Massimo Montanari (Middle Ages), Ken Albala (Renaissance), Beat Kümin (Early Modern Age), Marin Bruegel (Age of Empire), and Amy Bentley (Modern Age).
A Conceptual Network-Based Approach to Inferring the Cultural Evolutionary History of the Baltic Psaltery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The application of conventional phylogenetic techniques for inferring cultural history is problematic due to differences in the nature of information transmission in biological and cultural realms. In culture, units of transmission are not just measurable attributes, but communicable concepts. Therefore, relatedness amongst cultural elements often resides at the conceptual level not captured by traditional phylogenetic methods. This paper ...
Jews, Khazars and the issues of Slavic cultural history Ghent University
The essay analyzes Jewish and Khazar topics of U+2018mythologicalU+2019 existence within the context of Slavic history. It explores the discursive ambiguities of this subject-theme based on major historical case-studies, such as the Russian Primary Chronicle, Byzantine and Slavic medieval textual sources as well as the JudaizersU+2019 polemical controversy. The main suggestion postulated in the article relates to the unresolved issue referring ...