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Cultural Encounters : Representing Otherness.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136289996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.8/0094
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Contents:
Intro -- Cultural Encounters -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction Cultural encounters - representing 'otherness' -- 2 The Hottentot Venus and Western Man -- 3 Orientalist representations -- 4 Sandra Kogut's What Do You Think People Think Brazil Is? -- 5 Imagi-nation -- 6 Projecting Mrica -- Part II Displaying cultures -- 7 Museum ethnography -- 8 Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger -- 9 Towards an erotics of the museum -- 10 History, 'otherness' and display -- ll Texts, objects and 'otherness' -- Index.
Summary: Examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Contributors explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa.
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Intro -- Cultural Encounters -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction Cultural encounters - representing 'otherness' -- 2 The Hottentot Venus and Western Man -- 3 Orientalist representations -- 4 Sandra Kogut's What Do You Think People Think Brazil Is? -- 5 Imagi-nation -- 6 Projecting Mrica -- Part II Displaying cultures -- 7 Museum ethnography -- 8 Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger -- 9 Towards an erotics of the museum -- 10 History, 'otherness' and display -- ll Texts, objects and 'otherness' -- Index.

Examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Contributors explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa.

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