| Transfer Between Sea and Land: Maritime Vessels for Cultural Exchanges in the Early Modern Period Contributor(s): Kahlow, Simone (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9088906203 ISBN-13: 9789088906206 Publisher: Sidestone Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Maritime History & Piracy - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - History - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.8" W x 9.9" (0.70 lbs) 150 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Questions about the cultural exchange of both knowledge and material goods are just as topical today as in years gone by. These questions have gained increasing attention from scholars since the 1980s when the term 'transfers cultures' by historians arose. However, this book provides a completely new approach in this context by interdisciplinary investigation of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from shipwrecks and land, significant written documents and verifiable transfer of knowledge. The publication combines studies from humanities and natural sciences. Thus, historians, archaeologists, and pharmacists have investigated the way of transfer by means of material and immaterial goods, such as ship lists, medicine, metal ware, exotic animals and Asian objects as well as ship constructions. They set out, the continuity and discontinuity of cultural exchange based on moving objects depending on different conditions such as region, time, demand and availability. The innovative contributions of the publication aim to improve the understanding of cultural exchange by sea, as well as its reflection on land in the Early Modern Time and are the results of a workshop, which took place in the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven, a Research Institute of the Leibniz Association, in 2015. The results show good promise for forthcoming investigations at the interface between History and Maritime Archaeology. The book targets graduate and post-graduate interdisciplinary researchers of archaeological, human, and natural sciences as well as everybody interested in both post-medieval and maritime history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kahlow, Simone: - Simone Kahlow Studied Archaeology At Freie Universität And Humboldt-Universität In Berlin. At An Early Stage She Specialized In Medical Archaeology And Burial Archaeology In Both The Middle Ages And Post-Medieval Period, And Has Been Dealing With These Topics For Nearly 20 Years. Her Phd-Thesis, Supported By The German Research Foundation And Defended In April 2014, Aimed At Gaining A Better Understanding Of The Development Of Care Institutions Based On Building Constructions, Small Finds, As Well As Human And Animal Bones. As Post-Doctoral Researcher, She Worked At The German Maritime Museum In Bremerhaven, Institute Of The Leibniz Association, And Took The Great Opportunity To Investigate Different Groups Of Objects Such As Medicine Chests As Well As Exotic Animals And Asian Finds As Souvenirs Or Gifts. Those Topics Lead To A Workshop About Cultural Exchanges In The Early Modern Period, Which Is The Groundwork For The Book Transfer Between Sea And Land. Simone Kahlow Has Published Several Articles On Aspects Of Medical Archaeology, Medical History And Burial Practices. She Has Been Repeatedly Engaged As Editor Of Scientific Manuscripts And Exhibition Texts And Is Currently Dealing With Third-Party Fund Applications For Several Projects. |