The Solidarity of Suffering: Gender, Cross-Cultural Contact, and the Foreign Mission Work of Sister Ita Ford

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Mollin
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Mission Work ◽  
Foreign Mission

Cross-cultural contact: psychosis and the city in modern life

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-169
Author(s):  
Shuo Zhang ◽  
Vishal Bhavsar ◽  
Dinesh Bhugra
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Urban Mental Health ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places

In the modern globalized world with rapid industrialization and urbanization the city has once again become the focus of modern social, economic and political life. Urban spaces and places have been the focus of research by many disciplines, including epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, and urban studies. In this chapter, the authors outline the importance and the role of culture in urban mental health employing various historical, sociological, and epidemiological contexts. The authors point out that modern multicultural approaches in viewing the metropolis can be conceptualized as a global hub of migration. This therefore becomes a place where individuals encounter the other and various boundaries between spaces and residence, and between wellness and illness, intersect. Acculturation to the urban places may take some time and the authors propose that the psychological process of acculturation is a useful beginning in terms of unpicking and understanding the phenomenology of identity formation and cross-cultural contact. The chapter traces the historical development of the city in parallel to the literature on psychosis and the city in developed and developing contexts, before critically examining the role of culture in informing our explanatory and interpretive frameworks of psychosis epidemiology.

scholarly journals Indian Ocean Traffic: Introduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lola Sharon Davidson ◽  
Stephen Muecke
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Privileged Site

Like the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean has been a privileged site of cross-cultural contact since ancient times. In this special issue, our contributors track disparate movements of people and ideas around the Indian Ocean region and explore the cultural implications of these contacts and their role in processes that we would come to call transnationalization and globalisation. The nation is a relatively recent phenomenon anywhere on the globe, and in many countries around the Indian Ocean it was a product of colonisation and independence. So the processes of exchange, migration and cultural influence going on there for many centuries were mostly based on the economics of goods and trade routes, rather than on national identity and state policy.

Near Eastern Perspectives on the Greeks

2009 ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Robert Rollinger
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Persian Wars

This article considers ways of approaching Hellenism from the perspective of non-Hellenes and invites the reader to rethink some of the fundamental tenets of Hellenism. It argues that ancient Near Eastern sources offer a contrasting picture of cross-cultural contact in comparison with the Greek. For example, several kinds of evidence from the era of the Persian wars point to Greek involvement in the workforce at Persepolis, Susa, and Pasargadae, and in the bureaucracy of the Achaemenids. The article does not suggest that the non-Greek sources are necessarily more accurate or less biased than the Greek; rather, it illustrates how Near Eastern sources, which have been relatively neglected in the study of the eastern Mediterranean, cast a complementary light on historical situations that are also described by or impinge upon Greeks.

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