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Christoph Werner, « « Bankette und Akrobaten oder wie fetiert man Barbaren? Ein Beitrag zur interkulturellen Kommunikation », in : Markus Ritter, Ralph Kauz, Birgitt Hoffmann, eds., Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen. Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner, Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008, p. 74-85. (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 27) », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.39302
Setting out with general reflections on the difficulties of intercultural communication, Ralph Kauz analyses one particular example of Timurid-Chinese contacts of the 15th century: the report by Ġiyāṯ al-Dīn Naqqāš on the Timurid mission to Peking. A series of magnificent banquets and receptions marked their way to the capital, clearly designed to impress the “barbarians” from Central Asia. However, not only the variety of exotic dishes caught their attention, even more important were the acr...