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Encountering Foreign Worlds - Experiences at Home and Abroad - Proceedings from the 26th Nordic Congress of Historians, Reykjavik 8-12 August 2007 (Paperback)
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Encountering Foreign Worlds - Experiences at Home and Abroad - Proceedings from the 26th Nordic Congress of Historians, Reykjavik 8-12 August 2007 (Paperback)
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Encountering foreign places, peoples, objects and ideas is not a
new phenomenon, although it has become a growing part of modern
life. Throughout the ages people have travelled the globe and
encountered foreign worlds. In these encounters, they had to adapt
to new physical and mental environments, but in the process of
dealing with the foreign they transformed both the environments and
themselves. Familiar daily home life has also long been marked by,
and is increasingly filled with, signs and images of the foreign
world abroad. The papers in this session investigate how people of
the Nordic countries have interacted with, experienced, and handled
foreign things and people either abroad or at home from the 18th
century till today. They deal with different aspects of
foreignness, but focus especially on how people encounter, perceive
and create foreignness. The four main themes are the consumption of
foreignness, how foreignness is exhibited, the role of science and
travels in creating foreignness, and finally how foreignness is
handled and plays a part in the cultural encounter of mission and
aid-work.
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