Transcultural space and transcultural beings:
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Boulder [u.a.]
Westview Press
1996
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Schriftenreihe: | Institutional structures of feeling
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Abstract: | This book is about first contacts - intercultural spaces invaded and transgressed upon by explorers, both real and fictional. Although the book focuses on British East India's exploration of the Andaman Islands, complete with illustrations, ship's logs, and official published reports, David Tomas uses this study as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging discussion of first contact experiences, like the famous Orson Welles's radio dramatization, "The War of the Worlds," and Western recordings of endangered environmental and ethnographic sounds. Powerfully innovative, this book exposes the brutality one group of people can inflict upon another when they attempt to represent them in writing and photographs. Tomas contends that such unthinking brutality continues today, and planes and automobiles serve as our sailing ships, transporting people from dominant cultures into spaces that rapidly become destabilized. |
Umfang: | XII, 179 S. Ill. |
ISBN: | 0813319749 |
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adam_text | Titel: Transcultural space and transcultural beings
Autor: Tomas, David
Jahr: 1996
Contents
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
I Encounters in Intercultural Space
Chapter 1 Transcultural Space 9
Ships and Islands in Culture-Contact Situations 16
First Encounter 17
Observation and Perceptual Transformation in
Transcultural Space 21
Clothing and Transcultural Space 26
Decontextualization and Strangeness in
Culture-Contact Situations 30
On Transcultural Space 35
Notes 36
II Parasites and Open Circuits
Chapter 2 Of Trees and Men 41
Communication: A Theater of Cruelty 43
Contact in a Twilight Zone 45
An Island Hostelry 48
The Fictions of Communication 50
The Kinetics of Contact 52
Shedding Light on the Role of the Senses in Transcultural
Space 55
The Parasite as Sensory Poltergeist 58
Communication, the Senses, and Transcultural Space 62
Communication s Double Logic and the Genesis of
Transcultural Space 64
Notes 66
vui Contents
Chapter 3 Technologies of Representation, Transcultural
Space, and Transcultural Beings 69
Toward a Transcultural Representation 71
Clothes, Mirrors, Mannikins, Photographs, and
Anthropometric Measurements 75
Rites of Passage, Representational Systems, and
Transcultural Boundaries 93
Representational Systems, Boundaries, and
Transcultural Beings 97
Notes 100
III Imaginary Geographies and Beyond
Chapter 4 Sound and Intercultural Contact Spaces 103
Sounding Space at the Edge of History 104
Transcultural Soundscapes 107
Ethnography s Vanishing Soundscape 111
Transcultural Space Beyond a Politics of
Vanishing Sounds 118
Technology s Vanishing Soundscape 122
Of Other Sonic Spaces 125
Ambient Sonic Spaces, Marginal Histories, and Aural
Industrial Cultures 131
Notes 137
Chapter 5 Traumatic Photographs, Boundary
Phenomena, and Transcultural Space 141
Michael Leahy s First-Contact Photographs 143
Decontextualization and the Creation of Transcultural
Space in Irving Penn s New Guinea Photographs 149
A Transcultural Being and Transcultural Identity
as a Psychasthenic Boundary Phenomenon 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 165
About the Book and Author 169
Index 171
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