Transcultural space and transcultural beings. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Tomas.
• Authors: Tomas, David
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Encounters in Intercultural Space; Chapter 1 Transcultural Space; Ships and Islands in Culture-Contact Situations; First Encounter; Observation and Perceptual Transformation in Transcultural Space; Clothing and Transcultural Space; Decontextualization and Strangeness in Culture-Contact Situations; On Transcultural Space; Notes; II Parasites and Open Circuits; Chapter 2 Of Trees and Men; Communication: A Theater of Cruelty; Contact in a Twilight Zone; An Island Hostelry The Fictions of CommunicationThe Kinetics of Contact; Shedding Light on the Role of the Senses in Transcultural Space; The Parasite as Sensory Poltergeist; Communication, the Senses, and Transcultural Space; Communication's Double Logic and the Genesis of Transcultural Space; Notes; Chapter 3 Technologies of Representation, Transcultural Space, and Transcultural Beings; Toward a Transcultural Representation; Clothes, Mirrors, Mannikins, Photographs, and Anthropometric Measurements; Rites of Passage, Representational Systems, and Transcultural Boundaries Representational Systems, Boundaries, and Transcultural BeingsNotes; III Imaginary Geographies and Beyond; Chapter 4 Sound and Intercultural Contact Spaces; Sounding Space at the Edge of History; Transcultural Soundscapes; Ethnography's Vanishing Soundscape; Transcultural Space Beyond a Politics of Vanishing Sounds; Technology's Vanishing Soundscape; Of Other Sonic Spaces; Ambient Sonic Spaces, Marginal Histories, and Aural Industrial Cultures; Notes; Chapter 5 Traumatic Photographs, Boundar Phenomena, and Transcultural Space; Michael Leahy's First-Contact Photographs Decontextualization and the Creation of Transcultural Space in Irving Penn's New Guinea PhotographsA Transcultural Being and Transcultural Identity as a Psychasthenic Boundary Phenomenon; Notes; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 1996
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.482; Intercultural communication; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners; Andamanese (Indic people) -- First contact with Europeans; Acculturation; Photography in ethnology -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Acculturation; Andamanese (Indic people) -- First contact with Europeans; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners; Intercultural communication; Photography in ethnology; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429269714; 0429269714; 9781000002638; 1000002632; 9781000009477; 1000009475; 9781000015997; 1000015998
• Related ISBNs: 9780367212223
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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