Travellers and cosmographers : studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology /: studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joan-Pau Rebiés.
• Authors: Rubiés, Joan Pau
• Contents: Contents: Introduction; Part I Historical Perspectives: Travel writing as a genre: facts, fictions and the invention of a scientific discourse in early modern Europe; New worlds and renaissance ethnology; Instructions for travellers: teaching the eye to see; Travel writing and ethnography. Part II Texts and Debates: Giovanni di Buonagrazia's letter to his father concerning his participation in the 2nd expedition of Vasco da Gama (1502-1503); The oriental voices of Mendes Pinto, or the traveller as ethnologist in Portuguese India; Futility in the New World: narratives of travel in 16th-century America; The Jesuit discovery of Hinduism: Antonio Rubino's account of the history and religion of Vijayanagara (1608); The concept of cultural dialogue and the Jesuit method of accommodation: between idolatry and civilisation; The Spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries; Hugo Grotius's dissertation on the origin of the American peoples and the use of comparative methods; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.9332; Travel writing -- History -- 16th century; Travel writing -- History -- 17th century; Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Ethnology -- History -- 16th century; Ethnology -- History -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000939255
• Related ISBNs: 9781000945447
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