Embodiments of Cultural Encounters

• Other Authors: Jobs, Sebastian (Editor), Mackenthun, Gesa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Waxmann Verlag 2011
• Series: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 3
• Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups; Cultural studies; Bodies and Cultural Encounters; Same-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial Archive; Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion; African Pentecostal-type Christianity
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The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and pres...