Appel à communications : "Constructions of the Exotic in Europe and North America, 18th-21st centuries"

Appel à contributions Deadline: Dec 15, 2013 Constructions of the Exotic in Europe and North America, 18th-21st Centuries Material Culture Review solicits articles for a special issue on the theme of constructing the exotic. We are looking for articles that examine the question of how a person, an object or a work of art comes to be seen as exotic. How is "foreignness" constructed? How is one culture appropriated and domesticated by another? The goal here is not to show the constructed natu..