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TRAVEL AND ETHNOLOGY IN THE RENAISSANCE
SOUTH INDIA THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES, 1250-1625 |
By: |
Joan-Pau Rubies, Lyndal Roper |
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Paperback |

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£32.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521526132 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521526135 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
2 August, 2002 |
Series: |
Past and Present Publications |
Pages: |
472 |
Description: |
A detailed study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans during the early modern period, first published in 2000. |
Synopsis: |
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'. |
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12 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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