@article{452381,
      author = {Schwartz, Stuart B.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/452381},
      title = {Implicit understandings : observing, reporting, and  reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other  peoples in the early modern era /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {This volume brings together the work of twenty historians,  anthropologists, and literary scholars who have tried to  examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and  the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800,  the early modern era. The book is world-wide in scope -  ranging from Hawaii, Australia, and China to the Americas  and Africa - but is unified by the central underlying theme  that implicit understandings influence every culture's  ideas about itself and others. These understandings,  however, are changed by experience in a constantly shifting  process in which both sides participate. This makes such  encounters complex historical events and moments of  'discovery'. The scholars gathered here grapple with the  questions of how we observe, and how observation and  representation can reveal as much about ourselves as about  those we observe.},
      recid = {452381},
      pages = {xv, 637 p. :},
      address = {Cambridge [England] ;},
      year = {1994},
}