Travel and ethnology in the Renaissance : South India through European eyes, 1250-1625 / Joan-Pau Rubiés.
Material type: TextSeries: Past and present publicationsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 443 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 0511156065
- 9780511156069
- 0511118295
- 9780511118296
- 9780511496608
- 0511496605
- 9780511018718
- 0511018711
- 9780511049361
- 0511049366
- 1280159006
- 9781280159008
- 9786610159000
- 6610159009
- GN575
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | GN575 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocm70769137\ |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on spelling and vocabulary; 1. In search of India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes; 2. Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition; 3. Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist; 4. Ludovico de Varthema: the curious traveller at the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus; 5. The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classification; 6. The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes.
This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. The book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes towards non-Europeans.
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