Cultures in Motion

Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. Bhavani Raman is an associate professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Helmut Reimitz is a professor in the Department of History at Princeton University.

• Acknowledgments vii Cultures in Motion: An Introduction Daniel T. Rodgers 1 PART I: The Circulation of Cultural Practices 21 CHAPTER ONE: The Challenge Dance: Black-Irish Exchange in Antebellum America April F. Masten 23 CHAPTER TWO: Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations: Germany, Its Music, and Its Musicians Celia Applegate 60 CHAPTER THREE: From Patriae Amator to Amator Pauperum and Back Again: Social Imagination and Social Change in the West between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ca. 300-600 Peter Brown 87 PART II: Objects in Transit 107 CHAPTER FOUR: Knowledge in Motion: Following Itineraries of Matter in the Early Modern World Pamela H. Smith 109 CHAPTER FIVE: Fashioning a Market: The Singer Sewing Machine in Colonial Lanka Nira Wickramasinghe 134 CHAPTER SIX: Speed Metal, Slow Tropics, Cold War: Alcoa in the Caribbean Mimi Sheller 165 PART III: Translations 195 CHAPTER SEVEN: The True Story of Ah Jake: Language, Labor, and Justice in Late-Nineteenth-Century Sierra County, California Mae M. Ngai 197 CHAPTER EIGHT: Creative Misunderstandings: Chinese Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Europe Harold J. Cook 215 CHAPTER NINE: Transnational Feminism: Event, Temporality, and Performance at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference Jocelyn Olcott 241 AFTERWORDS 267-278 Itinerancy and Power Bhavani Raman 267 From Cultures to Cultural Practices and Back Again Helmut Reimitz 270 List of Papers 279 List of Contributors 283 Notes 285 Index 357

"Cultures in Motion represents first-rate scholarship and opens up a critical new space for historiography. Exploring the movement of things, ideas, and other cultural forms, the book—and the introduction in particular—gives an independent existence and importance to such work, and raises original questions about historical change and intercultural understandings."—Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations