Implicit understandings : observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.
Schwartz, Stuart B.
1994
D217 .I6 1994 (Mapit)
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Title Implicit understandings : observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era / edited by Stuart B. Schwartz.
ISBN 0521458803 (pbk.)
9780521458801 (pbk.)
0521452406
9780521452403
Imprint Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Language English
Description xv, 637 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number D217 .I6 1994
Alternate Call Number 15.50
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.482/4
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 587-601) and index.
Added Author Schwartz, Stuart B.
Series Studies in comparative early modern history.
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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
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
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
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.

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