Cultural Encounters
Representing Otherness
Published on 15. June 2000
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-415-20279-4 (ISBN)
Description
Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-20279-4 (9780415202794)
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Persons
Elizabeth Hallam is Director of Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen. Brian Street is Professor in the School of Education at King's College, London
Content
Muslims and European identity - can Europe represent Islam?; the Hottentot Venus and the western man - reflections on the construction of beauty in the West; orientalist representations - Palestinians and Arabs in some post-colonial film and literature; Sandra Kogut's "What do you think people think Brazil is?"; rephrasing identity; imagi-nation: the media, nation and politics in contemporary India; projecting Africa; two British travel films of the 1920s; museum ethnography - an imperial science; reflections on the fate of Tipoo's Tiger - defining cultures through public display; toward and erotics of the museum; history, otherness and display; texts, objects and otherness; problems of historical process in writing and displaying cultures.