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Title:

Cultural encounters : representing 'otherness' / edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Brian V. Street.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xiv, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Ethnicity
Ethnicity in art
Mass media and culture
Mass media and ethnic relations
Museum exhibits
Ethnocentrism--Europe.
Europe--Relations--Foreign countries.
Europe--Ethnic relations.
Europe--Foreign influences.--Foreign influences.

Other Authors:

Hallam, Elizabeth, 1967-
Street, Brian V.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: cultural encounters - representing 'otherness' / Elizabeth Hallam and Brian Street -- Muslims and European identity: can Europe represent Islam? / Talal Asad --Part I Visualizing 'otherness' -- Hottentot Venus and Western man: reflections on the construction of beauty in the West / Partha Mitter -- Orientalist representations: Palestinians and Arabs in some postcolonial film and literature / Yosefa Loshitzky -- Sandra Kogut's What do you think people think Brazil is? Rephrasing identity / Ana Reynaud -- Imagi-nation: the media, nation and politics in contemporary India / Rangan Chakravarty and Nandini Gooptu -- Projecting Africa: two British travel films of the 1920's / Emma Sandon -- Part II Displaying cultures -- Museum ethnography: an imperial science / Anthony Alan Shelton -- Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger: defining cultures through public display / Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz -- Towards an erotics of the museum / Julie Marcus -- History, 'otherness' and display / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Texts, objects and 'otherness': problems of historical process in writing and displaying cultures / Elizabeth Hallam.

Series:

Sussex studies in culture and communication

ISBN:

9780415202800
0415202809 (alk. pbk)
9780415202794
0415202795 (alk. hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42786341

LCCN:

99057236

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)