In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a
dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies
for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and
social space. From the transformations of the meanings and
practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of
medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the
fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century
New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices
through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange,
extending the insights of transnational and translocal history.
Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural
systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving,
crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The
essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of
intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are
histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas,
musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines,
streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In
addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate,
Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott,
Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.
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