Cultural encounters : representing 'otherness' / edited by Elizabeth Hallam and Brian V. Street.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hallam, Elizabeth, 1967-

Street, Brian V.

Series:

Sussex studies in culture and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity in art.

Mass media and culture.

Mass media and ethnic relations.

Museum exhibits.

Ethnocentrism--Europe.

Ethnocentrism.

Civilization.

Europe--Relations.

Europe.

Relations.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Europe--Civilization--Foreign influences.

Physical Description:

xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Contents:

1 Muslims and European identity: can Europe represent Islam? / Talal Asad 11

Part I Visualising 'otherness' 29

2 The Hottentot Venus and Western Man: reflections on the construction of beauty in the West / Partha Mitter 35

3 Orientalist representations: Palestinians and Arabs in some postcolonial film and literature / Yosefa Loshitzky 51

4 Sandra Kogut's What Do You Think People Think Brazil Is? Rephrasing identity / Ana Reynaud 72

5 Imagi-nation: the media, nation and politics in contemporary India / Rangan Chakravarty, Nandini Gooptu 89

6 Projecting Africa: two British travel films of the 1920s / Emma Sandon 108

Part II Displaying cultures 149

7 Museum ethnography: an imperial science / Anthony Alan Shelton 155

8 Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger: defining cultures through public display / Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz 194

9 Towards an erotics of the museum / Julie Marcus 229

10 History, 'otherness' and display / Ludmilla Jordanova 245

11 Texts, objects and 'otherness': problems of historical process in writing and displaying cultures / Elizabeth Hallam 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415202795

0415202809

OCLC:

42786341