Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
Davies, Surekha
Cambridge University Press
09/2017
379
Mole
Inglês
9781108431828
1108431828
15 a 20 dias
Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing relationships between civility, savagery and monstrosity.
- Introduction: Renaissance maps and the concept of the human
- 1. Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500
- 2. Atlantic empires, map workshops and Renaissance geographical culture
- 3. Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal
- 4. Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of Francois I and Henri II
- 5. Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants
- 6. The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana
- 7. Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru
- 8. New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590-1645
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
- 1. Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500
- 2. Atlantic empires, map workshops and Renaissance geographical culture
- 3. Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal
- 4. Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of Francois I and Henri II
- 5. Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants
- 6. The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana
- 7. Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru
- 8. New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590-1645
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
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Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing relationships between civility, savagery and monstrosity.
- Introduction: Renaissance maps and the concept of the human
- 1. Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500
- 2. Atlantic empires, map workshops and Renaissance geographical culture
- 3. Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal
- 4. Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of Francois I and Henri II
- 5. Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants
- 6. The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana
- 7. Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru
- 8. New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590-1645
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
- 1. Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500
- 2. Atlantic empires, map workshops and Renaissance geographical culture
- 3. Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal
- 4. Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of Francois I and Henri II
- 5. Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants
- 6. The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana
- 7. Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru
- 8. New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590-1645
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
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