Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human : New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
ISBN-10
1108431828
ISBN-13
9781108431828
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 31st, 2017
Print length
379 Pages
Weight
730 grams
Dimensions
17.60 x 25.50 x 2.40 cms
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Surekha Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing how mapmakers devised detailed images and descriptions that placed peoples within a hierarchy of civility and savagery. Davies shows how ideas about monstrosity were crucial for early modern ethnology and, consequently, for colonial expansion.
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