Introduction : between engagement and imagination
Interlude : a pair of parables
Mapping the margins : the ragged edges of state and nation
Imagining and imaging "anthropos"
Indianizing Iberia/performing Portugal : responses to the Iberian irruption
Parades of difference/parades of power
The birth of the hairy barbarian : ethnic slur as cultural marker
The mountain that needs no interpreter : Mt. Fuji and the foreign
Epilogue : antiphonals of identity.