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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human - New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Hardcover)
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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human - New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of
Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside
other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant
peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints,
costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia,
France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England,
Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful
syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an
age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial
officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should -
be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing
the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through
innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European
Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and
questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how
debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples
challenged colonial expansion.
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