Entangled Itineraries--with its breadth of topics; its attention to movement, exchange, translation, adaptation; its experimental mobilization of new heuristic concepts; and its expansive perspectives--opens up new frontiers in the study of human knowledge. It promises to provoke a major and positive reassessment in the field of history of science and will excite students and faculty in a variety of fields. An ambitious, necessary, and vital collection.--Federico Marcon, Princeton University
"Led by the insight that objects, ideas, and cultures are known through the 'relational fields' that they activate in migrating among places and times, this book is a sustained meditation on the versatility of matter. The authors have brought an astonishing range of knowledge and skills to bear on the unacknowledged cosmopolitan character of words, things, and values as we know them from one place or another on the Eurasian continent: really existing multiculturalism. Every chapter contains its pearl, but the sum of them is that future work on cultural exchange must begin from Entangled Itineraries."--Haun Saussy, University of Chicago
One of the many pleasures this volume offers is the community of scholars it represents. . . . The successful outcome proves that however difficult it might seem to write histories spanning cultural and linguistic zones, and however far out of their comfort zones scholars may be, collaborations do work and produce important volumes such as this one.-- "Technology and Culture"
This well-organized symposium volume is a timely contribution to the field of world history. Instead of proposing yet another all-encompassing mega-framework that aims at organizing every era obsessively, the book presents several approaches and examples to study the 'itineraries' of materials, practices, and knowledge while engaging other existing analytical categories.-- "Journal of World History"