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The present study examines Kalimpong and the surrounding border areas of the eastern Himalayas as a paradigmatic case of a "contact zone". In the colonial period as well as in the early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and the religions of the Himalayas; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a wealth of local and global historical sources, each contribution traces the paths of actors from different cultural backgrounds and examines the new forms of knowledge and practices that emerged from their encounters and their shifting power relations.

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Islamic education --- Multiculturalism

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This book critically examines multiple ways in which cultural diversity is represented and handled in a variety of contexts, from the artistic to the scientific, from the political to the theatrical, in media, fashion and everyday life, today as well as in the past. By drawing from the observation that specific socio-cultural features are made relevant to create asymmetries and hierarchies between individuals, groups and cultural resources, the volume questions, on the one hand, contingent processes of regulation, standardization, and homogenization of diversity. It points at contradictory processes of in- and exclusion related to the construction of differences between the Self and the Other in processes of doing culture. On the other hand, it recognizes and emphasizes the fluidity of cultural entanglements by adopting a transcultural perspective, which unifies the variety of the topics and of the contexts covered by the chapters, as well as their inter- and transdisciplinarity. While processes such as globalization, decolonization, migration, and mediatization have contributed to place diversity at the centre-stage of both scholarly and non-scholarly debates, this book invites to re-think norms, practices and negotiations of diversity and otherness through a variety of narrations, standardizations, imaginations, and negotiations. By emphasizing the contrast between emancipatory vs. standardizing approaches to diversity and otherness it also invites to "transculturalize" the study and the politics of culture.

Cultural pluralism. --- Multiculturalism.

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At the youth center z6 in Innsbruck emerges a streetdance scene at beginning of 1990. Most of the dancers are children of the first immigrant worker generation. This work focuses on streetdance and which impact it had on the dancers and as well on the local subculture. The memories of the ex-dancers build the center and are contextualized to the present in the sense of the cultural science analysis of the consciousness. The main interest is how dancing shapes the identity beyond cultural stereotypes and stigmatizing, because dancing is political.; Im Jugendzentrum z6 in Innsbruck entsteht Anfang der 1990er Jahre eine Streetdancegruppe. Sie besteht zum großen Teil aus den Kindern der ersten Gastarbeiter_innen-Generation. Diese Arbeit untersucht aus europäisch-ethnologischer Perspektive, welche Bedeutung Streetdance für die Tänzer_innen und die Subkultur in der Stadt hatte. Dabei werden die Erzählungen und die Erinnerungen der ehemaligen Tänzer_innen in den Mittelpunkt gerückt und im Sinne der kulturwissenschaftlichen Bewusstseinsanalyse aus gegenwärtiger Sicht kontexualisiert. Im Zentrum der Forschung steht, wie durch das Tanzen eigene Identitätskonstruktionen - jenseits von kulturalistischen und stigmatisierenden Zuschreibungen - ermöglicht werden, denn Tanzen ist politisch!

Break dancing. --- Multiculturalism. --- Subculture.

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Outdoor recreation --- Recreation --- Multiculturalism --- Management.