Travellers and cosmographers : studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology /
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| Author / Creator: | RubieĢs, Joan Pau. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. |
| Description: | 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Variorum collected studies series ; CS888 Collected studies ; CS888. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6643102 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Historical Perspectives
- Travel writing as a genre: facts, fictions and the invention of a scientific discourse in early modern Europe
- New worlds and renaissance ethnology
- Instructions for travellers: teaching the eye to see
- Travel writing and ethnography
- Part II. Texts and Debates
- Giovanni di Buonagrazia's letter to his father concerning his participation in the 2nd expedition of Vasco da Gama (1502-1503)
- The oriental voices of Mendes Pinto, or the traveller as ethnologist in Portuguese India
- Futility in the New World: narratives of travel in 16th-century America
- The Jesuit discovery of Hinduism: Antonio Rubino's account of the history and religion of Vijayanagara (1608)
- The concept of cultural dialogue and the Jesuit method of accommodation: between idolatry and civilisation
- The Spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Hugo Grotius's dissertation on the origin of the American peoples and the use of comparative methods
- Addenda and corrigenda
- Index
