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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part One: Albania; 1. An interview with the ghost of Mohammed Ali, former ruler of Egypt; 2. Kosova -- a corner of Europe still waiting for peace; Part Two: Egypt; 3. Foreigner complex; i. When in Rome; ii. Back to the army; iii. Enslaved by the slaves; iv. Complete apathy; v. Cultural invasion; vi. Cracked but not broken; vii. Becoming foreign to become Egyptian; viii. The making of Egypt's politicians; ix. Egypt for the Egyptians; 4. Egyptian coffee shops; i. The ancient drinking-places |
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Ii. The advent of coffeeiii. The Alexandrian bursa; iv. The Cairo club; v. The rural gharza; 5. The Bride of Hapi -- female sacrifice and cosmic order; i. The genesis of the rite; ii. The drowning; iii. The revival; 6. A parade of porters; i. The Nubian doorman; ii. The peasant bowab; iii. The simsars in their prime; iv. Today's bowab; Part Three: The United Kingdom; 7. If Only the Dead Could Listen (a play); Cast and Crew; Synopsis (Scenes One, Two and Three); Scene Four; Synopsis (Scene Five) |
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8. Images of Albania and Albanians in English literature -- from Edith Durham's High Albania to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter9. Western media and the European 'other' -- images of Albania in the British press; i. Introduction; ii. Expanding the Orient; iii. Racial prejudice towards the Balkans; iv. Identity crisis; v. The exotic archive; vi. The Death of the Journalist; vii. The price of biased journalism; viii. The media and double standards; Part Four: India; 10. Oh! not Calcutta |
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11. Media and celebrity culture -- subjectivist, structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to Mother Teresa's celebrity status12. A review of Hiromi J. Kudo's book Mother Teresa: A Saint from Skopje; 13. A note on Gëzim Alpion's book Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?; 14. Mother Teresa, abortion and the media; Introduction: In praise of Mother Teresa; Part One: Mother Teresa's thought about abortion; Part Two: How Mother Teresa talked about abortion; a. A prophetic approach; b. The Nobel Prize for Peace: acceptance speech and Nobel lecture |
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Part Three: How the media reported Mother Teresa's statements about abortiona. The Nobel Prize for Peace; b. A feature film on Mother Teresa; Conclusion: The logic behind Mother Teresa's concern about abortion; Envoi: 'No' to social closure; 15. Brain down the drain: an exposé of social closure in Western academia; i. Introduction; ii. The modern workhouse; iii. Brain drain: a new chapter of an old story; iv. Dictatorship and intellectual exodus; v. Between myth and reality; vi. An Italian and Japanese affair; vii. The long journey home; viii. Defining the 'ethnic'; Notes; Select bibliography |
| Summary |
"Encounters with Civilizations is a broad-ranging work, uniting sweeping themes such as history, culture, the media, social issues, and politics. Building around comparative analyses of aspects of Albanian, Egyptian, British, and Indian cultures, Alpion addresses the problems people experience in their encounters with civilizations different from their birth cultures. The course of history has made the confrontation and comingling of different cultures inevitable. It has also engendered ambivalence toward the cultures involved, including a desire to emulate the new culture, or resentment, or conflicting attitudes toward the relative strength or weakness of both birth and new cultures. Alpion describes how Egyptian culture and politics have been shaped by foreign domination while retaining ancient customs at the social level. In comparison, Great Britain has been an imperial power whose cultural preeminence has shaped the images of smaller countries in the eyes of the world. Alpion writes of English images of his native Albania and offers a penetrating analysis of Mother Teresa as a Christian missionary in Hindu and Muslim India, focusing on her cultural presentation via the media and the cult of celebrity. Whether discussing the customs of Egyptian coffee houses or Alexander the Great as a defining figure in Western and Eastern culture, Alpion grasps the impact of these cultural encounters. He makes us aware that understanding and resolving such differences involves considering ultimate issues of life and death."--Provided by publisher |
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Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997
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Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997. fast (OCoLC)fst00047218 |
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Egypt -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041284
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Albania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003184
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Albania.
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Egypt.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351311885 |
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1351311883 |
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