How do we use globalization and transculturality as tropes to understand processes across different times and spaces? One way is to understand locality, location, and locale, and then to look at the circulation of objects. Objects, as we know, have a life that continues long beyond their own times and spaces. And so we have movements being mapped in different times and different spaces throughout this book. Discussion of bronzization (a word I had not come across before) and of the ways in which bronze simply is the transculture of the Bronze Age, and of how the movement of bronze objects can be understood and analyzed through the model of globalization, takes us into early historic aspects of the idea of the global.
Another space extensively mapped here is the Indian Ocean, which has long been seen, of course, as a world in itself, with its own rhythms and requirements....
