Points of Contact
Subtitle: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (Bucknell Review)
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780838756027
Subjects: Cultural studies; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Europe; Pacific Ocean; Customs & Traditions; Civilization; Public Policy - Cultural Policy
Description: "This collection of eight essays examines specific cases of contacts between Pacific Rim and western European cultures to explore the phenomena of appropriations, intersections, transculturations, and discrete identities. The exchanges in ideas, religion, and culture resulting from contacts among these areas, whether through actual or virtual travel, indicate mutual affinities and occasionally interdependencies, but also separate and independent identities. Each of these essays concerns the portability, mutability, and adaptability of aspects of the exchange of ideas, and, in nearly all cases here examined, an affirmation of identity on the part of each culture in the exchange. The cases of intersections examined here generally indicate developments of cultures approaching one another and then retrenching."--BOOK JACKET.