Mapping ethnography in early modern Germany : new worlds in print culture
As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Basingstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010
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| Ausgabe: | Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | History of text technologies
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| Schlagworte: | Ethnology in art Prints Cartography Deutschland Frühdruck Illustration Amerika Asien Ethnologie Reiseliteratur |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 267 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; 1 Wonder and the Working Print: An Introduction; 2 Centering the Self: Mapping the Nuremberg Chronicle and the Limits of the World; 3 The Wild Man, the German Body, and the Emperor's New Clothes; 4 Hans Burgkmair's Peoples of Africa and India (1508) and the Foundations of Ethnography in Print; 5 Recuperating the Eyewitness: Jörg Breu's Images of Islamic and Hindu Culture in Ludovico de Varthema's Travels (Augsburg: 1515); 6 The Amerindian's Moveable Feast: From Cannibal Roast to Fools' Fete; Epilogue; Notes
- Selected BibliographyIndex
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; 1 Wonder and the Working Print: An Introduction; 2 Centering the Self: Mapping the Nuremberg Chronicle and the Limits of the World; 3 The Wild Man, the German Body, and the Emperor's New Clothes; 4 Hans Burgkmair's Peoples of Africa and India (1508) and the Foundations of Ethnography in Print; 5 Recuperating the Eyewitness: Jörg Breu's Images of Islamic and Hindu Culture in Ludovico de Varthema's Travels (Augsburg: 1515); 6 The Amerindian's Moveable Feast: From Cannibal Roast to Fools' Fete; Epilogue; Notes
- Selected BibliographyIndex