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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813340903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039146-5

3-11-036617-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Pluralisierung & Autorität, , 2076-8281 ; ; Band 44

Classificazione

NK 2405

Disciplina

303.482492

Soggetti

Knowledge

Germany, Northern Relations Netherlands

Netherlands Civilization 17th century

Netherlands Civilization 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 --



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Sommario/riassunto

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.