Artefacts of encounter : materialising emotions in fifty early modern representations / Karen O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Karen Annette, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First contact (Anthropology)--Sources.

Indigenous peoples--First contact with other peoples--Sources.

Indigenous peoples--Material culture.

Discoveries in geography--European.

Emotions--Anthropological aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 184 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Artifacts of encounter

Materialising emotions in fifty early modern representations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

"This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies. The artefacts selected for inclusion in this volume convey early modern visual dialogues, value systems and imagery through paintings, photographs, maps, drawings, buildings, books, icons, sacred sites and entities, dwellings and natural settings. Placing these objects within a comparative and international context, O'Brien considers the representation of these interactions as they are expressed through a wide gamut of human emotional experiences such as life, death, grief, pain, pleasure, belief, sadness, and conflict, along with the extended perspective of image reproduction. In doing so, the book locates the realities of early modern existence - the emotional, legal, spiritual, and violent encounters that encompass everyday experiences - in an expansive and varying spatial, cultural, geographical and temporal context. The book will interest students, scholars and general readers within a broad range of history subdisciplines including early modern history, Indigenous history, comparative history and socio-legal history and is also a useful text for undergraduate courses in politics, law, Indigenous studies and global studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Europe and the New World

2. Britain and Ireland

3. The United States of America

4. The Pacific Islands

5. Australasia

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version O'Brien, Karen Artefacts of encounter

ISBN:

9781032361109

1032361107

9781032361116

1032361115

OCLC:

1512065543

Publisher Number:

90102585750