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This is an essay in two parts. In the first one I discuss the epistemological problem of defining Latin American music solely from differences articulated from an explicit exoticism, as well as its "mestizo" character, and the historiographical and ...
José Manuel Izquierdo König
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Universal Exhibitions are one of numerous instances elaborated in order to display animals during the second half of the 19th century. But the role of animals in such events has yet to be studied: how are they exhibited and staged?
Sophie Corbillé, Emmanuelle Fantin
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Book review: inventing exoticism: geography, globalism and Europe's early modern world [PDF]
Benjamin Schmidt, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism and Europe's Early Modern World (University of Pennsylvania Press ...
Stock, Paul
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Nouveaux lieux de sociabilité cosmopolites à Antananarivo
In Antananarivo as well as in other Eastern African cities, there is a growing and visible presence of foreigners coming from developing countries.
Catherine Fournet-Guérin
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When cultural modifications are taken into account: Ibsen's a doll's house on Iranian screen [PDF]
How cross-cultural communications terminate in imperfect understanding can arguably be rendered by critical awareness about culturally differentiating conceptions in the interacting communities.
Baggali, Hamideh, Khiabani, Mahdiyeh T.
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A “Stranger” as a Sick Person in Yugoslav Travelogues of the First Half of the 20th Century
The paper deals with the connection between the figure of the ethnic “stranger” and the phenomenon of illness in Yugoslav travelogues in the second half of the 20th century.
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Transatlantic spaces: production, location and style in 1960s-1970s action-adventure TV series [PDF]
This paper argues that transatlantic hybridity connects space, visual style and ideological point of view in British television action-adventure fiction of the 1960s–1970s.
Bignell, Jonathan
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« Comme à l’époque de Suzie Wong ». Les mutations du red-light district de Wan Chai
The exotic novel, The World of Suzie Wong, and its many adaptations immortalized the red-light district of Wan Chai, Hong Kong with its American sailors, British Empire expatriates and Hong Kong prostitutes in the late 1950s.
Nicolas Paris
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Southern-Netherlandish observations and knowledge production of naturalia on the seas : the writings of Michael de Febure (1721) [PDF]
Just as was the case for other European sea voyages, maritime expeditions from the Southern-Netherlandish port of Ostend to Asia presented opportunities for the bringing of naturalia to Europe, and with it the production of knowledge on the natural world
De Winter, Wim
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In this article, we explore how traveling relates to image production and how transcultural filmic representations both uphold and are sustained by a “coloniality of seeing.” We pay special attention to the historical conditions of film ...
Anne Gustavsson, Mariana Giordano
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