B. Schwartz (ed.)

Implicit Understandings

Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
Herausgeber: Schwartz, Stuart B.; Stuart B., Schwartz

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together the work of twenty noted scholars to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from 1450 to 1800. The book is world-wide in scope but is unified by the central underlying theme that implicit understandings influence every culture's ideas about itself and others.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Comparative Early Modern History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 986g
• ISBN-13: 9780521458801
• ISBN-10: 0521458803
• Artikelnr.: 22334382

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Part I. European Visions of Others in the Late
Middle Ages: 1. The outer world of the European middle ages Seymour
Phillips; 2. Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps John B. Friedman; 3.
Spain circa 1492: social values and structures Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada;
4. The conquests of the Canary Islands Eduardo Aznar Vallejo; 5. Tales of
distinction: European ethnography and the Caribbean Peter Hulme; Part II.
Europeans in the Vision of Other Peoples; 6. Persian perceptions of Mongols
and Europeans David Morgan; 7. Sightings: initial Nahua reactions to
Spanish culture James Lockhart; 8. Dialogues of the deaf: Europeans on the
Atlantic Coast of Africa Wyatt MacGaffey; 9. Early Southeast Asian
categorizations of Europeans Anthony Reid; 10. Beyond the Cape: the
Portuguese encounter with the Peoples of South Asia Chandra Richard de
Silva; 11. The 'Indianness' of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies
of Other Ronald P. Toby; Part III. Adjustments to Encounter: 12. Essay on
objects: interpretations of distance made tangible Mary W. Helms; 13. The
indigenous ethnographer: the indio ladino as historian Rolena Adorno; 14.
What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late
Ming society Willard J. Peterson; 15. Demerits and deadly sins: Jesuit
moral tracts in late Ming China Ann Waltner; Part IV. Observers Observed:
Reflections on Encounters in the Age of Captain Cook: 16. Theatricality of
observing and being observed: 'Eighteenth-century Europe' 'discovers' the
?-century Pacific Greg Dening; 17. North America in the era of Captain
Cook: three glimpses of Indian European contact in the age of the American
Revolution Peter H. Wood; 18. An accidental Australian tourist: or a
feminist anthropologist at sea and on land Diane Bell; 19. Circumscribing
circumcision/uncircumcision: an essay amidst the history of difficult
description James A. Boon; Part V. Annotated Bibiliography.