Historical, anthropological, cultural, philosophical and literary studies are all woven together to pose, probe and re-evaluate the questions and the answers about who we are now, today, here – wherever ‘we’ may live or find ourselves, as individuals and as members of various groups – in view of our de facto multi-cultural histories, cultures and economies, whether we attend to these multi-cultural, historical and, because they persist into the present day, contemporary cultural complexities about ‘ourselves’ and ‘others’.
