Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Part I: Delineating Transculturality; Part II: Transcultural Spaces and Agents; Part III: Transcultural Temporalities; Part IV: Transcultural Semantics; Part V: The Transcultural Lens

Laila Abu-Er-Rub holds a PhD in anthropology from Heidelberg University and currently works as coordinator of the interdisciplinary Indo-German Centre for Advanced Studies ICAS:MP in New Delhi. Her research interests are visual and material culture, gender, and more particularly advertising, fashion studies and colourism.

Christiane Brosius is Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. Her research interests are urban transformation, lifecourse studies, art production and cultural heritage in South Asia (especially Nepal and India), as well as critical area studies and mobilities studies.

Sebastian Meurer, PhD, is the Academic Project Manager of the Collaborative Research Centre 948 'Heroes - Heroizations - Heroisms' at the University of Freiburg. He specializes in intellectual, constitutional, and administrative history since the seventeenth century with a focus on Britain and the British Empire.

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg. He has published two books, five edited volumes and 80 papers in journals and collective volumes with a strong focus on the dynamics of transcultural interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BCE.

Susan Richter is Acting Professor for Early Modern History at the University of Heidelberg. She has published two books, five edited volumes and more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books on early modern intellectual and administrative history, dynasties and state building in Europe and Asia.