Embodiments of cultural encounters
By: Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.).
Series: Cultural encounters and the discourses of scholarship -- v. 3; Cultural encounters and the discourses of scholarship -- v. 3.
Publisher: Waxmann
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Münster; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9783830925484
Subjects: Human body; Social aspects; Cultural relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "As in a mirror" : reflections on bodies and cultural encounters in seventeenth-century New England / Martha L. Finch; title: "A mark indelible" : Herman Melville and the cross-cultural history of tattooing in the nineteenth century / Michael C. Frank; title: Outside history : same-sex sexuality and the colonial archive / Lee Wallace; title: Sex as a transcultural event? : sexualities in the French Foreign Legion and their representations in autobiographical writing / Christian Koller; title: The embodiment of sin and virtue : visual representations of a religious concept in a colonial Andean contact zone / Astrid Windus; title: "Put on God's armour now!" : the embattled body in African Pentecostal-type Christianity / Andreas Heuser; title: Exotic humans on display : representations of cultural differences in German ethnic shows / Hilke Thode-Arora; title: Dreamlands of culture : ethnographic dioramas and their prospects / Andrea Zittlau; title: The colonial body as object of knowledge in ethnological museums / Anja Laukötter; title: Mediterranean medical bodies and the Ottoman Empire, 1517-1820 / Rainer Brömer; title: Musical bodies in Bali / Ellen Koskoff; title: Telling Maya tales : points of view in Guatemala / W. George Lovell; title: Protein and power : nutritional recommendations and daily life in Oaxaca / Martina Kaller-Dietrich.