LEADER 03889nam 22006132 450 001 9910450541503321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-11903-0 010 $a1-280-15900-6 010 $a0-511-01871-1 010 $a0-511-11829-5 010 $a0-511-15606-5 010 $a0-511-32905-9 010 $a0-511-49660-5 010 $a0-511-04936-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008092 035 $a(EBL)201668 035 $a(OCoLC)475915598 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511496608 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201668 035 $a(PPN)223806250 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201668 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10005050 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15900 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008092 100 $a20090306d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTravel and ethnology in the Renaissance $eSouth India through European eyes, 1250-1625 /$fJoan-Pau Rubie?s$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 443 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPast and present publications 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-52613-2 311 $a0-521-77055-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 401-422) and index. 327 $aList 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. 330 $aThis book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel historical and philosophical concerns, from the early and rare examples of medieval travellers such as Marco Polo, through to the more sophisticated narratives of seventeenth-century observers - religious writers such as Jesuit missionaries, or independent antiquarians such as Pietro della Valle. The book's approach combines the detailed contextual analysis of individual narratives with an original long-term interpretation of the role of cross-cultural encounters in the European Renaissance. An extremely wide range of European sources is discussed, including the often neglected but extremely important Iberian and Italian sources. However, the book also discusses a number of non-European sources, Muslim and Hindu, thereby challenging simplistic interpretations of western 'orientalism'. 410 0$aPast and present publications. 517 3 $aTravel & Ethnology in the Renaissance 606 $aEthnology$zEurope$xHistory 607 $aIndia, South$xDescription and travel 615 0$aEthnology$xHistory. 676 $a954.02 700 $aRubie?s$b Joan Pau$0436283 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450541503321 996 $aTravel and ethnology in the Renaissance$92475180 997 $aUNINA