Cultural encounters
Subtitle: representing 'otherness'
By: edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Brian V. Street.
Contributors: Hallam, Elizabeth, 1967-; Street, Brian V.
Series: Sussex studies in culture and communication
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: 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 -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cultural encounters - representing 'otherness' / Elizabeth Hallam and Brian Street; title: Muslims and European identity: can Europe represent Islam? / Talal Asad; title: Part I Visualizing 'otherness'; title: Hottentot Venus and Western man: reflections on the construction of beauty in the West / Partha Mitter; title: Orientalist representations: Palestinians and Arabs in some postcolonial film and literature / Yosefa Loshitzky; title: Sandra Kogut's What do you think people think Brazil is? Rephrasing identity / Ana Reynaud; title: Imagi-nation: the media, nation and politics in contemporary India / Rangan Chakravarty and Nandini Gooptu; title: Projecting Africa: two British travel films of the 1920's / Emma Sandon; title: Part II Displaying cultures; title: Museum ethnography: an imperial science / Anthony Alan Shelton; title: Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger: defining cultures through public display / Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz; title: Towards an erotics of the museum / Julie Marcus; title: History, 'otherness' and display / Ludmilla Jordanova; title: Texts, objects and 'otherness': problems of historical process in writing and displaying cultures / Elizabeth Hallam.