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Between Encyclopedia and Chorography - Defining the Agency of "Cultural Encyclopedias" from a Transcultural Perspective (Hardcover)
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Between Encyclopedia and Chorography - Defining the Agency of "Cultural Encyclopedias" from a Transcultural Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History
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During the early modern period, regional specified compendia -
which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns
and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images
series or maps - gain a new agency in the production of knowledge.
Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a
display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display
of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural
identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and
classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are
compendia on the Americas which research has described as
chorographies, encyclopeadias or - more recently - 'cultural
encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias,
universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the
American examples in the broader field of an early modern and
transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the
ancient and medieval tradition.
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