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Travel and ethnology in the Renaissance : South India through European eyes, 1250-1625 / Joan-Pau Rubiés.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Past and present publicationsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 443 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511156065
  • 9780511156069
  • 0511118295
  • 9780511118296
  • 9780511496608
  • 0511496605
  • 9780511018718
  • 0511018711
  • 9780511049361
  • 0511049366
  • 1280159006
  • 9781280159008
  • 9786610159000
  • 6610159009
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN575
Online resources:
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Item type: Online Book
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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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