Multi-stories
eBook - ePub

Multi-stories

Cross-cultural Encounters

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Multi-stories

Cross-cultural Encounters

About this book

This unique work explores, through personal narratives, the overlapping and intermingling of cultures as well as the immense cultural diversity across the world. This exploration inevitably questions notions of higher or lower cultures, and civilized or uncivilized peoples. Indeed it questions the very concept of superiority amongst peoples. Apart from cross-cultural encounters, this work also discusses how various democratic and non-democratic governments and organizations have attempted to conceal cross-cultural influences by inventing superiority, purity, and authenticity of cultures and civilizations to the detriment of others. Yet cross-culture pollination, an ongoing process, always reveals itself through the ignored cracks of history. The book shows that India is no exception and has been and continues to be porous. The numerous examples of cross-pollination — with Algeria, Indonesia, Cambodia, to mention a few — force us to re-look cultural constructs and indeed the very meaning of culture.

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Information

Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781136704628
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of plates
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. The Black Virgin
  11. 2. Travelling Buddha
  12. 3. Coffee
  13. 4. Cultural Baggage
  14. 5. Words’ Worth
  15. 6. Batata Aloo
  16. 7. Halo! Halo!
  17. 8. Tuneful Maladies
  18. 9. Candy’d Talk
  19. 10. Tongue Untied
  20. 11. The Kashmiri Magician
  21. 12. Encounters
  22. 13. Head to Toe
  23. 14 Home and Away
  24. 15 Wear with All
  25. 16. I Am Bandit
  26. 17. Badghizi
  27. 18. Blackouts
  28. 19. Oh Bokhara!
  29. 20. Fiddler on the Loose
  30. 21. The Game of the Name
  31. 22. The Tulips
  32. 23. Chewing Rice for Others
  33. 24. Repetersburg
  34. 25. Jokes Apart
  35. 26. Juvenile Delinquents
  36. 27. Earthquacks?
  37. 28. Crosswords
  38. 29. Food Traffic
  39. 30. Once Upon a Time
  40. 31. A Tribute ...
  41. 32. Teri Mary Maa
  42. 33. Size Matters
  43. 34. ‘Georgia on My Mind’
  44. 35. The ‘Civil’ Servant
  45. 36. Devotion
  46. 37. Authentiques
  47. 38. To The Holy Pope
  48. 39. Linguistic Creativity
  49. 40. Paper Trails
  50. 41. You’re in Safe Hands
  51. 42. How to Steal a Billion
  52. 43. Bollywood
  53. 44. Emptiness
  54. 45. Two Sides of a Coin
  55. 46. Rosy Prospects
  56. 47. We Owe the Armenians
  57. 48. A Wondrous World Wide Web
  58. 49. Winter Sonata
  59. 50. Linguistricks
  60. 51. Maali Blues
  61. 52. Stutter Nonsense
  62. 53. This Order, That Order
  63. 54. Telling Time
  64. 55. ‘Red Roses in the Snow’
  65. 56. Rung Interpretation
  66. 57. African Indians
  67. 58. From Havana to Kabul with Love
  68. 59. Phantom Foes
  69. 60. Wagah Woes!
  70. About the Author