Cultural Transfer
Schmale, Wolfgang
Central Europe
Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Arts
Education, Sciences
Social Matters, Society
Migration, Travel
Theory, Methodology
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Cultural transfers have occurred in all historical periods, but it is possible to discern trends and distinct periods. It is only through these transfers that history can become European (or global). Concentrations and accumulations of these transfers can be understood as a transcultural history of Europe and ultimately as Europeanization. The entities transferred can be defined in concrete terms as culturemes and structuremes. In many cases, the most diverse cultural references, which make concrete transfer easier and more efficient, are available. Cultural transfers continuously give rise to new coherences, which in some cases connect with one another over large areas – resulting in macro-coherences or clusters of coherences, as one finds in the context of the process referred to as Europeanization. However, these coherences can also remain restricted to local areas, without creating further "contagions". Cultural transfer research makes the rigid, linearly delimited, and strictly systemic elements of each cultural phenomenon permeable, thereby revealing the hybrid and composite nature of cultural phenomena.
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Christina Müller
Johannes Paulmann with Fridrun Rinner
Niall Williams
2012-12-05
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1450-1990
Central Europe
Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
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