ABSTRACT

A puffing smoking sea monster suddenly appears near the shoreline of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal in the eighteenth century, and a group of natives out fishing "appeared all at once to be struck dumb, their wondering gaze fixed in one direction, and on the sole object." This particular sea monster was the British steam vessel Pluto</

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I|32 pages

Encounters in Intercultural Space

chapter Chapter 1|30 pages

Transcultural Space

part II|62 pages

Parasites and Open Circuits

chapter Chapter 2|27 pages

Of Trees and Men

part III|63 pages

Imaginary Geographies and Beyond

chapter Chapter 4|38 pages

Sound and Intercultural Contact Spaces