Hybridity and its discontents : politics, science, culture / / edited by Avtar Brah and Annie E. Coombes

• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Cultural fusion; Multiculturalism; Assimilation (Sociology)
• Altri autori: BrahA CoombesAnnie E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction:theconundrum of 'mixing'; 1 Sexual affronts and racial frontiers: European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial Southeast Asia; 2 Miscegenation, nation formation and cross-racial identifications in the early Francoist folkloric film musical; 3 From miscegenation to hybridity: mixed relationships and mixed parentage in profile; 4 Welcome home: between two cultures and two colours; 5 Deanimations: maps and portraits of life itself 1 ; 6 Reading genes/writing nation: Reith, 'race' and the writings of geneticist Steve Jones7 Hybridity's discontents: rereading science and 'race'; 8 Translating the past: apartheid monuments in post-apartheid South Africa; 9 Technologies of conversion: cloth and Christianity in Polynesia; 10 Re-dressing the past: the Africanisation of sartorial style in contemporary South Africa; 11 Hybridity in a transnational frame: Latin-Americanist and post-colonial perspe
• Sommario/riassunto: Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in countries such as America, Britain and South Africa.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hybridity and its discontents
• ISBN: 1-134-65005-1; 1-134-65006-X; 1-280-14857-8; 0-203-99195-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808572303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II