1 Transcultural Studies 2012.1 2012. 1 Editors NotE Rudolf G. Wagner .04 On the Occasion of the Editor’s 70th Birthday .06 Monica Juneja ArticlEs Philipp Stockhammer Performing the Practice Turn in Archaeology .07 Derya Bayır and Prakash Shah The Legal Adaptation of British Settlers in Turkey .43 Roland Wenzlhuemer and Michael Offermann Ship Newspapers and Passenger Life Aboard Transoceanic Steamships in the Late Nineteenth Century .77 series on Multi-centred Modernisms: Shukla Sawant Instituting Artists’ Collectives: the Bangalore/Bengaluru experiments with “Solidarity Economies” .122 Christine Guth The Multi-centered Modernities of Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa" .150 2 Contributors to this Issue Transcultural Studies, No 1, 2012, ISSN: 2191-6411 Editor: Rudolf G. Wagner, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Managing Editor: Andrea Hacker Editorial Board: Christiane Brosius, Harald Fuess, Madeleine Herren, Monica Juneja, Birgit Kellner, Joachim Kurtz, Axel Michaels, and Roland Wenzlhuemer. Transcultural Studies is an open-access e-journal published bi-annually by the Cluster of Excellence, “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“ at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. For more information see: www.transculturalstudies.org CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: Philipp W. Stockhammer is an archaeologist and works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research focuses on the European and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age as well as archaeological theory and methodology. Derya Bayır is a member of GLOCUL: Centre for Culture and Law, Queen Mary, University of London, and a legal consultant at Avci & Yazici Law Firm in İstanbul specialising in international human rights and minority rights, criminal law, and the Turkish legal system. Prakash Shah is Director of GLOCUL: Centre for Culture and Law at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests include legal pluralism, cultural diversity and law, and law and religion. Roland Wenzlhuemer is a research group leader at Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He researches and teaches modern history with a particular focus on colonial and global history. Michael Offermann is an MA student of history and a student assistant at Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität 3 Transcultural Studies 2012.1 Heidelberg. His research interests focus on colonial history but also extend to theories and methods of history from an interdisciplinary perspective. Shukla Sawant is a visual artist and an associate professor of visual studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.. She teaches courses on contemporary art and her research interests include art in colonial India, early modernism, and photography. Christine Guth is Tutor in Asia Design History at the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research has focused on the history of collecting in Japan and across cultures. Her current project is a study of the social life of Hokusai’s “Great Wave.” 02_Contributors 02_titel