Looking at Other Cultures

PART I. LOOKING. Leila Koivunen, The Wealth of the Dark Continent. Representations of African objects in the illustrations of European travel literature; Berit Nordman, Decorated Bodies as icons of Tradition and Primitivism. Papua New Guinea Highlands adornment and its representations; Salla Kokkonen, From Ritual to Performance Art. South Indian powder painting ritual and performance art as performances; Henri Schildt, Space as Microcosm. Four traditional Brahmin houses in North-Malabar, South India; Elina Sorainen, Thousands of Years of Memory in a Clay Pot. A ceramics village in Sistän-Baluchistan, Iran; Virpi Huhtala, The Representation of Dionysos in Egyptian Textiles since Late Antiquity; PART II. REMEMBERING. Minna Törmä, Looking at Chinese Landscape Painting. Traditions of spatial presentation; Anna Kortelainen, Japan and Eros – Axel Gallen's Icons of Youth; Harri Kalha, Skin-Deep Beauties: Race, Gender and Aesthetics; Anne Aurasmaa, What to Remember, or Not to Remember. Of scientific exhibitions and other cultural displays.