Travel and ethnology in the Renaissance : South India through European eyes, 1250-1625 / Joan-Pau Rubiés.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubiés, Joan Pau.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Past and present publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Europe.

Ethnology.

Europe.

Travel literature--India.

Travel literature.

Travel literature--Europe.

India, South--Description and travel.

India, South.

Renaissance.

South India.

Physical Description:

xxii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

A note on spelling and vocabulary

1. In search of India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes

2. Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition

3. Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist

4. Ludovico de Varthema: the curious traveller at the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus

5. The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classification

6. The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes

7. The social and political order: Vijayanagara decoded

8. The historical dimension: from native traditions to European orientalism

9. The missionary discovery of South Indian religion: opening the doors of idolatry

10. From humanism to scepticism: the independent traveller in the seventeenth century

Conclusion: Before orientalism

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-422) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521770556

OCLC:

44915399