A Porous Line

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Matthies Green ◽  
Kirk E. Costion
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Line P

This chapter introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), which was designed to more clearly expose the processes that occur in the multicultural contexts of colonization, frontiers, and ancient borderlands. The model can visually represent simultaneous interactions by numerous participants and explores the various ways in which people interact and what motivates their participation in cultural exchanges. This chapter reviews the theoretical origins of the CCIM, describes how it works, and how it has changed since its inception. Second, the chapter briefly introduces each of the case studies in this volume which serve to showcase the versatility of the CCIM.

Graphically Modeling the Prehistory of Regional Interactions in the Moquegua Valley, Southern Peru

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk E. Costion ◽  
Ulrike Matthies Green
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Middle Horizon ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Moquegua Valley

The Cross-Cultural Interaction Model was first developed specifically to help model the cultural interactions taking place in the Moquegua Valley of Southern Peru during the culturally dynamic early Middle Horizon. This chapter highlights the flexibility of the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model by using it to illustrate how regional interactions changed throughout the prehistoric sequence of this region. The Moquegua drainage is the easiest route from the highlands of the Southern Titicaca altiplano to the Pacific Ocean; in addition the middle Moquegua Valley is ideal for large-scale maize agriculture. As a result, regional interactions have been an integral element in this region’s cultural evolution. Starting with the Archaic Period and continuing through the Late Intermediate Period this chapter graphically explores the nature of the regional interactions that took place in each time period and how these interactions shaped the cultural landscape of the Moquegua Valley over time

Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Cultural Interactions

Archaeologists who study cross-cultural interaction face the challenge of carefully untangling the web of complex relationships between people, landscapes, and material cultures. Over time the debate on describing cultural interaction scenarios centered on changing definitions of colonialism and frontier and at times obscured the in-depth analysis of complex social processes that take place in these contexts. In an attempt to bridge this gap, this book introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM) as a tool to visually display and organize the inherent complexity of the social, economic, and political interactions that take place in multicultural borderlands or across long distances. Through the CCIM, scholars are able to explore a wide spectrum of cultural interactions, expose what motivates participation in cultural exchanges, or highlight what people reject in these interactions. Throughout the book the CCIM is adapted by various scholars to specific datasets from a wide variety of geographical and temporal contexts around the world. The adaption of the CCIM in these and other case studies demonstrates not only the versatility of the model in multicultural contexts but also highlights its usefulness as an analytical tool. The process of graphically modelling cross-cultural interactions compels scholars to think about them in a different light and can be applicable not just in archaeological, but also historical and contemporary scenarios.

Modeling Complex Cultural Encounters in Contact and Colonial Greenland, 1690–1900

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Andreas Toft
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Glass Beads ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Main Motivation ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Cross

In the wake of European whaling and the presence of Danish colonists and missionaries, the Greenlandic Inuit were facing not only foreign people but also a new material culture in the form of European commodities between 1690 and 1900. Trade was the main motivation for these cultural encounters, but the nature and duration of local encounters affected Inuit use and reception of foreign things. This cultural exchange cannot be reduced to the simple dichotomy of Inuit and Europeans. Many groups were involved on both sides, and foreign commodities were accompanied by Europeans in some areas, whereas Inuit groups acted as middlemen in others. This chapter discusses the applicability of the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model to complex Contact and Colonial encounters based on the cultural biographies of glass beads, barrel hoops, and iron objects transformed into ulos (women’s knives) in the Historic Thule Culture.

English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Nineteenth-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-242
Author(s):  
Isabelle Richet
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

This paper discusses the symbiotic relationship that developed between English-language periodicals published in Italy and major reading rooms in Rome and Florence. This relationship took various configurations – from Luigi Piale in Rome, who opened a reading room and published the weekly The Roman Advertiser, to the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence that provided access to the many English-language periodicals published in Italy – and created important spaces of transnational cultural interaction. The paper looks at the cultural practices and the forms of sociability represented by the reading of periodicals and the patronizing of reading rooms as ‘imported traditions’ brought to Italy by the many British cultured travellers and residents in the nineteenth century. It identifies the actors who promoted these cultural practices (editors, librarians, cosmopolitan intellectuals) and analyses their role as mediating figures who created in-between spaces where cross-cultural exchanges unfolded. The paper also discusses the broader transnational cultural dynamic at work as those cultural practices imported from England favoured a greater engagement of British visitors and expatriates with the Italian political and cultural environment.

Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine D. Beaule
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Key Terms

The chapter outlines some key conclusions apparent from the collection of case studies in this edited volume, particularly regarding the highly variable, and sometimes minimal, impact of processes of colonialism on local or indigenous cultures. The argument briefly revisits other chapters’ conclusions about fluidity and variability in cross-cultural interaction. It ties this varability to modern conceptions of continuity and cultural change in ongoing struggles to reckon with the lasting impact of colonialism in modern nation states. And the chapter seeks to problematize archaeologists’ conceptual frameworks that employ key terms and data from prehistoric and historic, Western and non-Western case studies of colonialism. In doing so, it aims to extend the critique of archaeologies of colonialism beyond the regions, time periods, and cultural case studies included in this book.

scholarly journals Multicultural Education of Students as an Important Part of Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Izida I. Ishmuradova ◽  
Alfiya M. Ishmuradova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Multicultural Competencies ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Positive Effect

This article is about the improvement of the cross-cultural interaction of students. It is dealt with some country studies projects. It is shown that country studies projects have a positive effect on the process of teaching students. The content of this article can be used to improve the process of teaching a foreign language. results showed that Multicultural competencies of the students are the component of the professional competencies.  Country studies projects, namely: creative works and country studies educational festivals are the effective basis for the formation of multicultural competencies of students.  

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