Shirin A Khanmohamadi

In Light of Another's Word

European Ethnography in the Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

Shirin A. Khanmohamadi is Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature at San Francisco State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245622
• ISBN-10: 0812245628
• Artikelnr.: 38132559

Autorenporträt

Shirin A. Khanmohamadi is Professor of Comparative and World Literature at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology
and Its Uses in the Medieval Period
2. Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald
of Wales
3. Writing Ethnography "In the Eyes of the Other": William of Rubruck's
Mission to Mongolia
4. Casting a "Sideways Glance" at the Crusades: The Voice of the Other in
Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis
5. Dis-Orienting the Self: The Uncanny Travels of John Mandeville
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments