Time and History : the Variety of Cultures.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rsen, Jrn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
Series:Making Sense of History, 10
Subjects:
Time.
History.
Civilization, Oriental.
time.
history (discipline)
HISTORY / Historiography.
Civilization
Civilization, Oriental
History
Time
India > Civilization.
India
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Table of Contents:
  • Title page-Time and history; Contents; Preface to the series; Introduction; Part I-Time; Ch 1-Making sense of time; Ch 2-Concepts of time in traditional cultures; Ch 3-Time, ritual, and rhythm in Dimodonko; Ch 4-Time concepts in China; Ch 5-Aspects of Zeitdenken in the inscriptions in premodern India; Ch 6-Interpretations of time in Islam; Ch 7-Constructions of time in the literature of modernity; Part II-History; Ch 8-History, culture and the quest for organism; Ch 9-Competing visions of history in internal Islamic discourse and Islamic-Weatern dialogue.
  • Ch 10-Cultural plurality contending memories and concerns of comparative historyCh 11-Politics of historical sense generation; Ch 12-Communalism, nationalism, secularism; Ch 13-The search for scholarly identity; Ch 14-History and cultural identity; Bibliography; Notes on the contributors; Index of names.

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