ABSTRACT

Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction: Cultural encounters – representing ‘otherness'

Cultural encountersrepresenring 'otherness'

chapter 1|17 pages

Muslims and European identity

Can Europe represent Islam?

part 1|119 pages

Visualising 'otherness'

chapter 2|16 pages

The Hottentot Venus and Western Man

reflections on the construction of beauty in the West

chapter 3|21 pages

Orientalist representations

Palestinians and Arabs in some postcolonial film and literature

chapter 4|17 pages

Sandra Kogut's What Do You Think People Think Brazil Is?

Rephrasing identity

chapter 5|19 pages

Imagi-nation

The media, nation and politics in contemporary India

chapter 6|40 pages

Projecting Africa

Two British travel films of the 1920s

part 2|135 pages

Displaying cultures

chapter 7|39 pages

Museum ethnography 1

An imperial science

chapter 8|35 pages

Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger

Defining cultures through public display 1

chapter 9|16 pages

Towards an erotics of the museum 1

chapter 11|24 pages

Texts, objects and ‘otherness'

Problems of historical process in writing and displaying cultures