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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rüsen, Jörn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Colección:Making sense of history ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface to the Series; Jörn Rüsen Introduction ; Jörn Rüsen PART I: TIME Chapter 1. Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness; Jörn Rüsen Chapter 2. Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures; Klaus E. Müller Chapter 3. Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko; Fritz W. Kramer Chapter 4. Time Concepts in China; Achim Mittag Chapter 5. Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India; Georg Berkemer Chapter 6. Interpretations of Time in Islam; Otfried Weintritt Chapter 7. Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity; Harro Müller PART II: HISTORY Chapter 8. History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism; Aziz Al-Azmeh Chapter 9. Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue; Abdullahi A. An-Na'im Chapter 10. Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India; B. D. Chattopadhyaya Chapter 11. Politics of Historical Sense Generation; D. L. Sheth Chapter 12. Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity; Michael Gottlob Chapter 13. The Search for Scholarly Identity-Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan; Masayuki Sato Chapter 14. History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan; Shingo Shimada Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index