Cracow Indological Studies 2016. Vol. XVIII. Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism in Indian Cultural Dynamics

This issue of the Cracow Indological Studies stems from the 5th Coffee Break Conference “Space, culture, language and politics in South Asia: common patterns and local distinctions”, held in May 2014 in Rome. The Coffee Break Project focuses on scholarly methodology and aims at
creating a platform for comparing not only data from different fields of research, but also concepts and vocabulary of different traditions of scholarship that constitute the
different approaches of disciplines such as, e.g., anthropology, history of religion, and
theatre. This volume contains, on
the
one hand, the
development of the reflections emerged during the conference (see the papers of Cristina Bignami, Katrin Binder, Piotr Borek, Giorgio De Martino,
Ewa Dębicka-Borek, Sarah Merkle and Elena Mucciarelli),and, on the other, contributions that are the
result of the “distant” dialogue on
the topic of “Cosmopolitan and Regional” with the scholars who joined the project afterwards (see the papers of Hermina Cielas, Robert Czyżykowski, Ilona Kędzia, Vera Lazzaretti, Olga Nowicka and Katarzyna Skiba).