Empire of the senses : sensory practices of colonialism in early America
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Empire of the senses : sensory practices of colonialism in early America
(Early American history series : the American colonies, 1500-1830 / edited by Jaap Jacobs, L. H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, v. 8)
Brill, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : making sense of colonial encounters and new worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite
- Touching on communication : visual and textual representations of touch as friendship in early colonial encounters / Céline Carayon
- Mission soundscapes : demons, Jesuits, and sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista espiritual (1639) / Jutta Toelle
- Singing with strangers in early seventeenth-century New France / Michaela Ann Cameron
- The pain of senses escaping : eighteenth-century Europeans and the sensory challenges of the Caribbean / Annika Raapke
- Color visions : perceiving nature in the Portuguese Atlantic world / Marília dos Santos Lopes
- Colonial sensescapes : Thomas Harriot and the production of knowledge / Daniela Hacke
- Merian and the pineapple : visual representation of the senses / Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy
- "Delightful a fragrance" : native American olfactory aesthetics within the eighteenth-century Anglo-American botanical community / Andrew Kettler
- The aromas of flora's wide domains : cultivating gardens, aromas, and political subjects in the late seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Kate Mulry
- Exploring underwater worlds : diving in the late seventeenth-/early eighteenth-century British Empire / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Empire of the Senses brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships. From early French interpretations of intercultural touch, to English plans to restructure the scent of Jamaica, these essays elucidate different ways the expansion of rival European empires across the Americas involved a vast interconnected range of sensory experiences and practices. Empire of the Senses offers a new comparative perspective on the way European imperialism was constructed, operated, implemented and, sometimes, counteracted by rich and complex new sensory frameworks in the diverse contexts of early America.
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Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds
Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite
Part 1: Cultural Encounters
1 Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters
Celine Carayon
2 Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista Espiritual (1639)
Jutta Toelle
3 Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-century New France
Michaela Ann Cameron
Part 2: Colonial Subjectivity
4 The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the Caribbean
Annika Raapke
5 Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic World
Marilia dos Santos Lopes
Part 3: Structures of Knowledge
6 Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of Knowledge
Daniela Hacke
7 Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the Senses
Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy
8 "Delightful a Fragrance": Native American Olfactory Aesthetics Within the Eighteenth-century Anglo-American Botanical Community
Andrew Kettler
Part 4: Colonial Projects
9 The Aromas of Flora's Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-century English Atlantic
Kate Mulry
10 Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-/Early Eighteenth-century British Empire
Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
Index
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