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Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100): How the Foreign became Local and Vice Versa
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This article examined how nomads and imperial agents conceptualized foreign objects through metonymic and metaphoric associations to influence understandings of self and group identity in Han China and the northern Black Sea.Abstract:
Concepts such as creolization and hybridity offer inclusive frameworks to study identity formation emanating from cross-cultural interaction. The borrowing of such concepts developed from recent history must contend with their relevance for the past as well as their applicability for understanding objects with mixed cultural features. This article reassesses the hybrid concept by contrasting a cognitive approach that identifies the figurative processes behind the local adaptation of foreign things. Looking at objects from Han China and the northern Black Sea, I examine how nomads and imperial agents conceptualized foreign objects through metonymic and metaphoric associations to influence understandings of self and group identity.read more
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The Middle Ground. Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1615-1850, de Richard White
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
TL;DR: The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 White, Richard as discussed by the authors, reviewed the Middle Ground in the book.
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Metaphors We Live by
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TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors explores the history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other, and argues that mime is deeply tied to colonialism, and more specifically to the colonial trade's construction of "savages."
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Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the notion of gift exchange and identity in the contemporary Pacific: transformations of Fijian ceremonies, the disclosure of reciprocity discoveries, and the European appropriation of indigenous things: curiosity - colonialism in its infancy converted artifacts - the material culture of Christian missions murder stories - settlers' curios ethnology and the vision of the state artifacts as tokens of industry.