Includes biographical references and index.

Cultural hybridity and transculturality / Axel Michaels -- Asymmetry in transcultural interaction / Rudolf Wagner -- Global connections in transcultural research : thoughts from a historian's perspective / Roland Wenzlhuemer -- Not "cultures", but culture! The need for a transcultural perspective in archaeology / Joseph Maran -- Civilization(s) : use and abuse of a macro-historical category / Daniel Konig -- Medieval concepts of migration and transculturality / Bernd Schneidmuller -- Transculturality, or, how to find Europe beyond Eurocentrism / Madeleine Herren -- Exploring the contact zone : a critical assessment from the perspective of early modern Euro-Ottoman history / Pascal Firges & Tobias P. Graf -- Microcosm bazaar : markets as places of cultural encounters and areas of conflict / Frank Gr�uner -- Mobility, mediation and transculturation in the medieval Mediterranean : migrating mercenaries and the challenges of mixing / Nikolas Jaspert -- Transversal histories and transcultural afterlives : Indianized renditions of Jean Bodin in global intellectual history / Milinda Banerjee -- Modern Arabic rhetorical manuals : a transcultural phenomenon / Jan Scholz -- Migrant literary genres : transcultural moments and scales of transculturality / Hans Harder -- Translating Jesuits' translation as a useful tool to explore transculturality? / Antje Fl�uchter -- Islamic law with Chinese characteristics : approaching cultural transfers through a functional theory / Roberta Tontini -- Economies of the sacred in premodern Japan / Anna Andreeva -- Cultural heritage and architectural history between appropriation, substitution and translation : plaster casts of Angkor Wat in a transcultural perspective / Michael Falser -- Appropriation of effective and changing things : a prehistorian's perspective / Philipp Stockhammer -- The vocation of indigenous knowledge and sciences as metaconcepts / Dhruv Raina -- "A very civil idea" : art history and world-making, with and beyond the nation / Monica Juneja -- The problem with a geoaesthetic approach to the Indian highway exhibition / Cathrine Bublatzky -- Press powers : China, gender and the media in a global context / Barbara Mittler -- Citizenship, hybridity and the state in India / Subrata K. Mitra, Jivanta Schottli & Markus Pauli -- The transcultural turn in the study of "religion" / Hans Martin Kramer -- Emotion studies and transcultural studies / Max Stille -- Affect beyond the human : Indian agriculture in a multispecies world / Daniel Munster -- Transforming knowledge : concepts of transcultural studies and digital humanities / Armin Volkmann.

"Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field's central methodological concepts and terms"-- Provided by publisher.