Implicit understanding : observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schwartz, Stuart B. (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [Inglaterra] : Cambridge University Press, c1994.
Colección:Studies in comparative early modern history
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  • Pte.1 :The outer world of the European Middle Ages / Seymour Phillips
  • Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps / John B. Friedman
  • Spain, circa 1492 : social values and structures / Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada
  • The conquests of the Canary Islands / Eduardo Aznar Vallejo
  • Tales of distinction : European ethnography and the Caribbean / Peter Hulme
  • Pte.2 : Persian perceptions of Mongols and Europeans / David Morgan
  • Sightings : initial Nahua reactions to Spanish culture / James Lockhart
  • Dialogues of the deaf : Europeans on the Atlantic coast of Africa / Wyatt MacGaffey
  • Early Southeast Asian categorizations of Europeans / Anthony Reid
  • Beyond the Cape : the Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia / Chandra Richard de Silva
  • The "Indianness" of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of Other / Ronald P. Toby
  • Pte. 3 : Essay on objects : interpretations of distance made tangible / Mary W. Helms
  • The indigenous ethnographer : the "indio ladino" as historian and cultural mediation / Rolena Adorno
  • What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late Ming society / Willard J. Peterson
  • Demerits and deadly sins : Jesuit moral tracts in late Ming China / Ann Waltner
  • Pte. 4 : The theatricality of observing and being observed : eighteenth-century Europe "discovers" the ? century "Pacific" / Greg Dening
  • North America in the era of Captain Cook : three glimpses of Indian-European contact in the age of the American Revolution / Peter H. Wood
  • An accidental Australian tourist : or a feminist anthropologist at sea and on land / Diane Bell
  • Circumscribing circumcision/uncircumcision : an essay amid the history of difficult description / James A. Boon.