Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern EraStuart B. Schwartz World-wide in scope, this volume brings together the work of twenty historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the Early Modern era. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
EUROPEAN VISIONS OF OTHERS IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES | 21 |
The outer world of the European Middle Ages | 23 |
Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps | 64 |
Spain circa 1492 Social values and structures | 96 |
The conquests of the Canary Islands | 134 |
Tales of distinction European ethnography and the Caribbean | 157 |
EUROPEANS IN THE VISION OF OTHER PEOPLES | 199 |
ADJUSTMENTS TO ENCOUNTER | 353 |
Essay on objects Interpretations of distance made tangible | 355 |
The indigenous ethnographer The indio ladino as historian and cultural mediation | 378 |
What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late Ming society | 403 |
Demerits and deadly sins Jesuit moral tracts in late Ming China | 422 |
OBSERVERS OBSERVED REFLECTIONS ON ENCOUNTERS IN THE AGE OF CAPTAIN COOK | 449 |
The theatricality of observing and being observed Eighteenthcentury Europe discovers the ? century Pacific | 451 |
North America in the era of Captain Cook Three glimpses of IndianEuropean contact in the age of the American Revolution | 484 |
Persian perceptions of Mongols and Europeans | 201 |
Sightings Initial Nahua reactions to Spanish culture | 218 |
Dialogues of the deaf Europeans on the Atlantic coast of Africa | 249 |
Early Southeast Asian categorizations of Europeans | 268 |
Beyond the Cape The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia | 295 |
The Indianness of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of Other | 323 |
An accidental Australian tourist Or a feminist anthropologist at sea and on land | 502 |
Circumscribing circumcisionuncircumcision An essay amidst the history of difficult description | 556 |
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