Cultural Encounters : Representing Otherness.
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TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2000Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2000Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (309 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9781136289996
- 305.8/0094
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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