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The central theme of the volume is interdisciplinary experimentation. The volume includes collaborative and interdisciplinary studies on a variety of topics, from territorialisation of theory, relations between culture theory and research methodology, culture-dependent meaning formation, power relations in discourses on religion, communal heritage management, celebration practices of (national) holidays, conceptual boundaries of the ‘unnatural’, temporal boundaries in culture and cultural boundaries within archaeological material. Some of the chapters are dedicated to more general theoretical and methodological questions, while the majority of chapters use Estonian culture as source material for approaching broader cultural theoretical notions and questions. The chapters are the outcome of an experimental collaborative project aimed at bringing together representatives of various disciplines in order to find new ways to conceptualise and study their research objects or discover new study objects between disciplines. The approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration taken by the authors of the chapters are diverse. Some of them juxtapose or combine several disciplinary perspectives on common issue in order to highlight the multifaceted nature that escapes the purview of any one discipline. Some reveal similarities or complementarities between the disciplines despite the apparent differences in their metalanguage and theoretical apparatus. Others take a more integrative approach and aim to present a more holistic interdisciplinary theoretical or methodological framework. Several of the chapters re-evaluate or re-interpret existing data or case studies from the vantage points afforded by other fields, prompting questions that are not usually asked within their own field. In addition, the experimental collaboration also offered a space within which to explore issues located between disciplines and whose reoccurring presence becomes evident when diverse disciplines and studies are brought into dialogue.

interdisciplinary culture theory, hybrid methodology, culture dependent meaning making, power, religion, heritage management, social rhythm, archaeological cultures, territorialisation, cultural boundaries, unnatural --- interdisciplinary culture theory --- hybrid methodology --- culture dependent meaning making --- power --- religion --- heritage management --- social rhythm --- archaeological cultures --- territorialisation --- cultural boundaries --- unnatural

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This is the first English translation of one of Korea's most celebrated historical works, a pre-modern classic so well known to Koreans that it has inspired contemporary literature and television. Written in 1821 by Chong Yagyong (Tasan), Admonitions on Governing the People (Mongmin simso) is a detailed manual for district magistrates on how to govern better. In encyclopedic fashion, Chong Yagyong addresses the administration, social and economic life, criminal justice, the military, and the Confucian ritual system. He provides examples of past corrupt officials and discusses topics of the day such as famine relief and social welfare. A general call for overhauling the Korean ruling system, the book also makes the radical proposition that the purpose of government is to serve the interests of the people. This long-awaited translation opens a new window on early-nineteenth century Korea and makes available to a wide audience a work whose main concerns simultaneously transcend national and cultural boundaries.

Civil service ethics --- Local officials and employees --- Conduct of life. --- 1821. --- administrations. --- asian lit. --- confucianism. --- criminal justice. --- cultural boundaries. --- district magistrates. --- early 19th century. --- economics. --- encyclopedia reference. --- english translation. --- famine relief. --- famous literature. --- global literature. --- governance. --- government and governing. --- government. --- historical. --- korea. --- korean literature. --- korean military. --- korean ruling system. --- nonfiction. --- peoples government. --- political. --- premodern literature. --- ritual system. --- social history. --- social welfare.

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Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television-like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family-but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from the middle-class Jewish neighborhood into which she married. This book is Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic. Included are autobiographical moments interwoven with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons from Dr. Dolittle to Lionel Trilling, The Godfather to Camille Paglia. Her experiences allow her to probe the cultural tensions in America caused by competing ideas of individuality and community, upward mobility and ethnic loyalty, acquisitiveness and spirituality.

American literature --- Italian Americans --- Italian American women --- Italian Americans in literature. --- Women, Italian American --- Women --- Ethnology --- Italians --- Italian American authors --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs. --- Italian influences. --- Intellectual life. --- Torgovnick, Marianna, --- Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) --- neighborhood, locale, regional, growing up, coming of age, goals, biography, autobiography, true story, new york, city, urban, college, culture, mobility, class, classism, social, wasp, white, anglo saxon, protestant, brooklyn, italian, working, jewish, marriage, cultural, boundaries, scholar, literary, critic, influential, america, american, united states.

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Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Hamtramck, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of Muslim residents of any American city, Alisa Perkins shows how the Muslim American population has grown and asserted itself in public life. She explores the efforts of Muslim American women to maintain gender norms in neighbourhoods, mosques, and schools, as well as Muslim Americans' efforts to organise public responses to municipal initiatives. Her fieldwork incorporates the perspectives of both Muslims and non-Muslims, including Polish Catholics, African American Protestants, and other city residents. Drawing particular attention to Muslim American expressions of religious and cultural identity in civil life, Perkins questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies.

Muslims --- Social conditions --- Detroit (Mich.) --- Ethnic relations --- History --- African American. --- African Americans. --- Bangladeshi American teenagers. --- Bangladeshi American women. --- Bangladeshi American. --- Bangladeshi Americans. --- Islamophobia. --- LGBTQ. --- Muslim American incorporation. --- Muslim American integration. --- Muslim Americans. --- Muslim minorities. --- Muslim sound. --- Polish Americans. --- Yemeni American women. --- Yemeni American. --- Yemeni Americans. --- Yemeni homes. --- adhān. --- boundary formation. --- call to prayer. --- citizenship. --- cultural boundaries. --- cultural citizenship. --- domestic space. --- embodied practice. --- hijab. --- homophobia. --- immigration reform. --- institutional racism. --- interfaith. --- internal migration. --- mosque. --- mosques. --- municipal belonging. --- municipal debate. --- paid labor. --- pluralism. --- public space. --- public-private divide. --- purdah. --- queer. --- religious diversity. --- religious identity. --- religious instruction. --- secondary school. --- secular inclusion. --- secular. --- sociability. --- social relations. --- space making. --- space-making. --- spatial practices. --- temporal sensibility. --- urban United States. --- urban space. --- youth.