Europeans and Africans : mutual discoveries and first encounters /
In 'Europeans and Africans,' Michał Tymowski analyses the first contacts between the Portuguese and other Europeans and Western Africans in the 15th and early 16th centuries, the cultural and psychological as well as the organizational aspects of contacts. The territorial scope of the rese...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Polish. |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ;
v. 10. |
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| Summary: | In 'Europeans and Africans,' Michał Tymowski analyses the first contacts between the Portuguese and other Europeans and Western Africans in the 15th and early 16th centuries, the cultural and psychological as well as the organizational aspects of contacts. The territorial scope of the research encompasses the West African coast. Michał Tymowski describes and analyses the feelings and emotions which accompanied the contacts, of both Africans and Europeans, analyzes the methods in which both parties communicated and organized the first encounters as well as the influence of these contacts on the cultures of both sides. The work is based on a variety of source material, written sources and works of African art, in which Africans' opinions and emotions are reflected. |
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| Item Description: | "This work first appeared in Polish under the title 'Europejczycy i Afrykanie: wzajemne odkrycia i pierwsze kontakty,' Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe umk, Warszawa-Toruń 2017"--Introduction. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 389 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-371) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004420113 9004420118 |