Mapping ethnography in early modern Germany : new worlds in print culture
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Mapping ethnography in early modern Germany : new worlds in print culture
（History of text technologies / Gary Taylor, Francois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Elizabeth Spiller, series editors）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-261) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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: Joerg 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
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