Contact in Context.

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Table of contents; acknowledgements; contacts and contexts; part i: contact afar; chapter one -- making contact(s); chapter two -- point venus; chapter three -- conflicts afar and within. the irish, the british and the indians in honoria lawerence''s journals; chapter four -- finding a centre; part ii: contact within; chapter five -- humans zoos in europe; chapter six -- "open to public view and examination"; chapter seven -- contact with an internal 'other'?; chapter eight -- the racial republican context and intercultural contact; bibliography; contributors.

Contact between cultures has been understood in various ways and this particular volume considers the European cultural, social, scientific, philosophical and political contexts framing encounter. All of the essays thus look at the different ways in which individuals and institutions work these contexts into their representations of contact settings. In Part 1, the conventional stance is adopted where encounter is understood as taking place elsewhere and not on European soil. The chapters ex ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165).

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