Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
Surekha Davies
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Surekha Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing how mapmakers devised detailed images and descriptions that placed peoples within a hierarchy of civility and savagery. Davies shows how ideas about monstrosity were crucial for early modern ethnology and, consequently, for colonial expansion.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107036673
- ISBN-10
- 1107036674
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2016
- Publication date
- 2016-06-02
- Pages
- 380
- Dimensions
- 185x254x25
- Weight
- 816