Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human : new worlds, maps and monsters /
Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge social and cultural histories ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Renaissance maps and the concept of the human
- Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500
- Atlantic empires, map workshops and Renaissance geographical culture
- Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal
- Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of Francois I and Henri II
- Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants
- The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana
- Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru
- New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590-1645
- Epilogue.