Implicit Understandings Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era

Name: Implicit Understandings Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
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ISBN: 9780521458801

ISBN-10: 0521458803

ISBN-13: 9780521458801

Edition: 1994

Authors: Stuart B. Schwartz

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/25/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His many books include "All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World".



Preface


Introduction



European Visions of Others in the Late Middle Ages



The outer world of the European middle ages




Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps




Spain circa 1492: social values and structures




The conquests of the Canary Islands Eduardo




Tales of distinction: European ethnography and the Caribbean




Europeans in the Vision of Other Peoples



Persian perceptions of Mongols and Europeans




Sightings: initial Nahua reactions to Spanish culture




Dialogues of the deaf: Europeans on the Atlantic Coast of Africa




Early Southeast Asian categorizations of Europeans




Beyond the Cape: the Portuguese encounter with the Peoples of South Asia Chandra




The 'Indianness' of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of Other




Adjustments to Encounter



Essay on objects: interpretations of distance made tangible




The indigenous ethnographer: the indio ladino as historian




What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late Ming society




Demerits and deadly sins: Jesuit moral tracts in late Ming China




Observers Observed: Reflections on Encounters in the Age of Captain Cook



Theatricality of observing and being observed: 'Eighteenth-century Europe' 'discovers' the ?-century Pacific




North America in the era of Captain Cook: three glimpses of Indian European contact in the age of the American Revolution




An accidental Australian tourist: or a feminist anthropologist at sea and on land




Circumscribing circumcision/uncircumcision: an essay amidst the history of difficult description




Annotated Bibiliography