Joan-Pau Rubies, Joan-Pau Rubis, Rubies Joan-Pau

Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance

South India Through European Eyes, 1250 1625

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans during the early modern period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780521526135
• ISBN-10: 0521526132
• Artikelnr.: 21149247

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The search for India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes
2. Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition
3. Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist
4. The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classification
5. The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes
6. The social and political order: Vijayanagara decoded
7. The historical dimension: from native traditions to European orientalism
8. The missionary discovery of South Indian religion: opening the doors of idolatry
9. From humanism to scepticism: the independent traveller in the seventeenth century
10. Conclusion: before orientalism
Appendix
Bibliography.