Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance

Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance

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Rubies, Joan-Pau
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9780511034121
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This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel historical and philosophical concerns, from the early and rare examples of medieval travellers such as Marco Polo, through to the more sophisticated narratives of seventeenth-century observers - religious writers such as Jesuit missionaries, or independent antiquarians such as Pietro della Valle. The book's approach combines the detailed contextual analysis of individual narratives with an original long-term interpretation of the role of cross-cultural encounters in the European Renaissance. An extremely wide range of European sources is discussed, including the often neglected but extremely important Iberian and Italian sources. However, the book also discusses a number of non-European sources, Muslim and Hindu, thereby challenging simplistic interpretations of western 'orientalism'.
EAN 9780511034121
ISBN 0511034121
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Cambridge University Press
Datum vydání 21. prosince 2000
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
Autoři Rubies, Joan-Pau
Série Past and Present Publications
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