Encounters with Civilizations
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- ISBN 9781412818315
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Gëzim Alpion is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He received a PhD from the University of Durham, UK, in 1997. His works include Vouchers: A Tragedy (2001), Foreigner Complex: Essays and Fiction About Egypt (2002), Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity (2007) and If Only the Dead Could Listen (2008).
Gaston Roberge teaches film and communication at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta. He has written fifteen books, one of which, Communication Cinema Development (Manohar, 1998), won an award at the National Film Festival in India in 1999.
