Cultural Encounters examines a diverse range of media and art forms, from film to advertisements, photography to poetry, in an attempt to explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Australia and Africa. The book offers news ways of understanding the encounters between members of different cultural groups by analyzing the diversity of ways in which 'otherness' has been constituted and transformed in contemporary and historical contexts. The authors begin by examining how cultural and historical unity and difference are represented in the art forms of the countries, and also look at the European penchant for creating an 'other' from these depictions. Hallam and Street then explore the social, cultural and political ramifications involved in the display of cultural artwork, and the power that the museum holds in determining markers of 'otherness' by privileging certain forms of information and neglecting others. The book looks at key areas of debate in terms of race and gender, power and prestige in the world of cultural art.

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 
1. Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam? 
2. The Hottentot Venus and the Western Man: Reflections on the Construction of Beauty in the West 
3. Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and Arabs in some Post-colonial Film and Literature 
4. Sandra Kogut's 'What do you think people think Brazil is?' Rephrasing Identity 
5. Imagi-nation: the Media, Nation and Politics in Contemporary India 
6. Projecting Africa. Two British Travel Films of the 1920s 
7. Museum Ethnography: an Imperial Science 
8. Reflections on the Fate of Tipoo's Tiger: Defining Cultures through Public Display 
9. Toward and Erotics of the Museum 
10. History, Otherness and Display 
11. Texts, Objects and Otherness. Problems of Historical Process in Writing and Displaying Cultures

Elizabeth Hallam is Director of Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen. Brian Street is Professor in the School of Education at King's College, London

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