Making contact : maps, identity, and travel / Glenn Burger ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burger, Glenn, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--History--Congresses.

Intercultural communication.

Cross-cultural orientation--History--Congresses.

Cross-cultural orientation.

History.

Discoveries in geography.

America--Discovery and exploration--Congresses.

America.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Contact and Identity / Lesley B. Cormack, Natalia Pylypiuk xvii

Part 1 Spatial and Temporal Maps: Mappaemundi and Calendars

Africa Unbounded: On an Unstudied European Mappamundi (ca. 1450) and in Related Cartography / Scott D. Westrem 3

The Bells of Vilnius: Keeping Time in a City of Many Calendars / David Frick 23

Part 2 Identities and Subjectivities: Jews, Buddhists, Christians, and Vagrants

(De)Stabilized Identities in Medieval Jewish-Christian Disputations on the Talmud / Steven F. Kruger 63

Jesuit Missionaries and the Earliest Contact Between European and Japanese Cultures / Nakai Ayako 87

Vagrants Meet Nomads: Rogues, Aborigines, and Elizabethan Subjectivity / Linda Woodbridge 115

Part 3 Travel to the New World: The Early Modern and the Postmodern

Re-Writing the Virginian Paradise: The Conflicted Author(s) of a Late Sixteenth-Century Travel Account / Paul W. DePasquale 143

Stylizations of Selfhood in Pierre-Esprit Radisson's Voyages / Rick H. Lee 173

Re-Reading the Past: Cabeza de Vaca in History, Fiction, and Film / Richard A. Young 203

Afterword: Making Contact

Maps of Identity / Jonathan Hart 225.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held Oct. 1-3, 1998 at the University of Alberta.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index.

ISBN:

0888643772

OCLC:

53231489