Implicit Understandings

Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era

By: No Information Available

Write A Review

Paperback | 27 March 1995

At a Glance

Paperback
656 Pages

Edition Type
Annotated

Dimensions(cm)
23.39 x 15.6 x 3.35

Paperback

RRP $79.95

$74.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $18.69 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

This volume brings together the work of twenty historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the early modern era. The book is world-wide in scope - ranging from Hawaii, Australia, and China to the Americas and Africa - but is unified by the central underlying theme that implicit understandings influence every culture's ideas about itself and others. These understandings, however, are changed by experience in a constantly shifting process in which both sides participate. This makes such encounters complex historical events and moments of 'discovery'. The scholars gathered here grapple with the questions of how we observe, and how observation and representation can reveal as much about ourselves as about those we observe.

Industry Reviews

"The range of subjects covered and the evident erudition of the authors are impressive." Sixteenth Century Journal "...each contributer illustrates important aspects about topic, methodology, and the evolution of the historians craft." Canadian Journal of History "Stuart B. Schwartz deserves congratulations for sccomplishing something difficult and rare; he has edited a book of twenty essays (including the introduction) that hold together and constitute a single resource (as well as twenty separate ones)." William and Mary Quarterly

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Asian History General & World History Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Geographical Discovery & Exploration Sociology & Anthropology

Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Preface
Introduction
European Visions of Others in the Late Middle Ages
The outer world of the European middle ages
Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps
Spain circa 1492: social values and structures
The conquests of the Canary Islands Eduardo
Tales of distinction: European ethnography and the Caribbean
Europeans in the Vision of Other Peoples
Persian perceptions of Mongols and Europeans
Sightings: initial Nahua reactions to Spanish culture
Dialogues of the deaf: Europeans on the Atlantic Coast of Africa
Early Southeast Asian categorizations of Europeans
Beyond the Cape: the Portuguese encounter with the Peoples of South Asia Chandra
The 'Indianness' of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of Other
Adjustments to Encounter
Essay on objects: interpretations of distance made tangible
The indigenous ethnographer: the indio ladino as historian
What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late Ming society
Demerits and deadly sins: Jesuit moral tracts in late Ming China
Observers Observed: Reflections on Encounters in the Age of Captain Cook
Theatricality of observing and being observed: 'Eighteenth-century Europe' 'discovers' the ?-century Pacific
North America in the era of Captain Cook: three glimpses of Indian European contact in the age of the American Revolution
An accidental Australian tourist: or a feminist anthropologist at sea and on land
Circumscribing circumcision/uncircumcision: an essay amidst the history of difficult description
Annotated Bibiliography
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Implicit Understandings

Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in General & World History

100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events

Alchemy

An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

A Short History of Ancient Rome

A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World

The hilarious and fascinating new book from the international bestselling author of HUMANS

The Breath of the Gods

The History and Future of the Wind

History's Greatest Drinking Games

From the Notorious to the Wisely Forgotten

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

The Voynich Manuscript

Letters from a Stoic

The Ancient Classic

The Rape of Nanking

The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

The History of the Ancient World

From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Born in 1945? What else happened?

What else happened?

Vanilla

The History of an Extraordinary Bean

Churchill

Walking with Destiny

Mutiny on the Bounty

Saga of Sex, Sedition, Mayhem and Mutiny, and Survival Against Extraordinary Odds

Kokoda

Updated Edition

The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy

Leather-bound Classics

History's Strangest Deaths

A Half-Arsed History book

The Greatest Nobodies of History

Minor Characters from Major Moments

The Golden Road

How Ancient India Transformed the World

Guts and Glory

Diggers, Sport and War

Blamey

The story of Australia's greatest general, for readers of Grantlee Kieza, Peter FitzSimons and Roland Perry

In Plain Sight

A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition

The War on the West

How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

This product is categorised by