Transformations of knowledge in Dutch expansion / editors, Susanne Friedrich, Arndt Brendecke, Stefan Ehrenpreis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedrich, Susanne, editor.

Brendecke, Arndt, editor.

Ehrenpreis, Stefan, editor.

Series:

Pluralisierung & Autorität ; Band 44.

Pluralisierung & Autorität, 2076-8281 ; Band 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge.

Germany, Northern--Relations--Netherlands.

Germany, Northern.

Netherlands--Civilization--17th century.

Netherlands.

Netherlands--Civilization--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Brendecke, Arndt / Friedrich, Susanne

Re-Orienting the Transformation of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion: Nagasaki as a Centre of Accumulation and Management / Roberts, Lissa

Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments / Ishizu, Mina / Valeriani, Simona

Empiricism and Image-Building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636-1750 / Ehrenpreis, Stefan

Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-Emergence of Cannibalism / Groesen, Michiel van

Knowledge Products and their Transmediations: Dutch Geography and the Transformation of the World / Schmidt, Benjamin

Transformations and Transformativity of Knowledge: François Le Vaillant's Travelogues from the Dutch Cape Colony / Fischer-Kattner, Anke

Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Malabar and the Netherlands: A Review of Van Reede's Hortus Malabaricus / Singh, Anjana

Under the Spell of Curiositas: Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) as Ethnologist and Natural Scientist / Noak, Bettina

Before the Bible, beyond the Bible...? VOC Travelogues, World Views and the Paradigms of Christian Europe / Rietbergen, Peter

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 9, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110391466

3110391465

9783110366174

3110366177

OCLC:

910514142