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Travellers and cosmographers : studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology
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- Creator
- Joan-Pau Rubiés
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
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- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0754659364, 9780754659365
- OCLC
- ocn138342428
- Includes index.
- 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 -- TEXTS AND DEBATES. Giovanni di Buonagrazia's letter to his father concerning his participation in the second expedition of Vasco da Gama (1502-3) -- The oriental voices of Mendes Pinto, or the traveller as ethnologist in Portuguese India -- Futility in the New World: narratives of travel in Sixteenth-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 civilization -- The Spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Hugo Grotius's dissertation on the origin of the American peoples and the use of comparative methods