Time and History : The Variety of Cultures /
This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Ja...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2008]
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Colección: | Making Sense of History ;
10 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Series
- Introduction
- Part I TIME
- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness
- Chapter 2: Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures
- Chapter 3: Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko
- Chapter 4: Time Concepts in China
- Chapter 5: Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India
- Chapter 6: Interpretations of Time in Islam
- Chapter 7: Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity
- Part II HISTORY
- Chapter 8: History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism
- Chapter 9: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue
- Chapter 10: Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India
- Chapter 11: Politics of Historical Sense Generation
- Chapter 12: Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity
- Chapter 13: The Search for Scholarly Identity-Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
- Chapter 14: History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index of Names