E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: History of Text Technologies
Leitch Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany
2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-11298-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
New Worlds in Print Culture
E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: History of Text Technologies
ISBN: 978-0-230-11298-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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 ethnography.
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Wonder and the Working Print: an Introduction Centering the Self: Mapping the Nuremberg Chronicle and the Limits of the World The Wild Man, the German Body, and the Emperor's New Clothes Hans Burgkmair's Peoples of Africa and India (1508) and the Foundations of Ethnography in Print Recuperating the Eyewitness: Jörg Breu's Images of Islamic and Hindu Culture in Ludovico Varthema's Travels (1515) The Amerindian's Moveable Feast: From Cannibal Roast to Fools' Fete