Facing Each Other (2 Volumes): The WorldÆs Perception of Europe and EuropeÆs Perception of the World

by Pagden,Anthony; Pagden,Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780860785262
• ISBN10: 0860785262
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-05-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously 'discovered', and then, as often as not, colonised, understood the strangers in their midst. This volume attempts to cover both these topics, as well as to provide a number of crucial articles on the difficulties faced by modern historians in understanding the complex, relationship between 'them' and 'us'. Inevitably such relationships not only changed over time, they also varied greatly from culture to culture. The articles, therefore cover most of the areas with which the European world came into contact from the earliest Portuguese incursions into Africa in the mid fifteenth century until the explorations of Cook and Bougainville in the Pacific in the late eighteenth. It ranges, too, from Brazil to Russia, from Tahiti to China.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
General Editor's Preface	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Part I
General and Theoretical
The Medieval West and the Indian Ocean: An Oneiric Horizon	1	(20)
Jacques Le Goff
The Image of the Barbarian in Medieval Europe	21	(32)
W.R. Jones
Aboriginal Property and Western Theory: Recovering a Middle Ground	53	(28)
James Tully
New Worlds and Renaissance Ethnology	81	(42)
Joan-Pau Rubies
The Methodising of Travel in the 16th Century: A Tale of Three Cities	123	(36)
Justin Stagl
The Discovery of America and the Discovery of Man	159	(26)
J.H. Elliott
Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance	185	(28)
Steven Mullaney
Image de l'autre et image de soi-meme dans le discours ethnologique au XVIIIe siecle	213	(20)
Roger Mercier
La Connaissance des autres: theories et pratiques	233	(10)
Tzvetan Todorov
Asia
Asia in the Eyes of Europe: The Seventeenth Century	243	(18)
Donald F. Lach
Edwin J. Van Kley
Christian and Chinese Visions of the World in the Seventeenth Century	261	(18)
Jacques Gernet
Creating an Image of Europe for China: Aleni's Hsi-fang ta-wen	279	(88)
John L. Mish
Part II
Imagined Peripheries: The World and its Peoples in Japanese Cartographic Imagination	367	(28)
Masayuki Sato
China, the Confucian Ideal, and the European Age of Enlightenment	395	(26)
Walter W. Davis
Diderot and the Image of China in Eighteenth-Century France	421	(14)
Huguette Cohen
America
Amerindian Views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century	435	(32)
Cornelius J. Jaenen
Facing up to Caribbean History	467	(10)
Jalil Sued-Badillo
English Perceptions of Treachery, 1583-1640: The Case of the American `Savages'	477	(26)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Africa
White Kings on Black Kings: Rui de Pina and the Problem of Black African Sovereignty	503	(14)
Peter Russell
Scratches on the Face of the Country; or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen	517	(26)
Mary Louise Pratt
African History, Anthropology, and the Rationality of Natives	543	(20)
Wyatt MacGaffey
Pacific
The Exotic as Erotic: Captain Cook at Tahiti	563	(28)
Roy Porter
The Pacific Ocean: The Eighteenth Century's `New World'	591	(44)
Alan Frost
Possessing Tahiti	635	(16)
Greg Dening
Naturalist Versus Nations: Eighteenth-Century Russian Scholars Confront Ethnic Diversity	651	(26)
Yuri Slezkine
Index	677