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100 1  Davies, Surekha, |d1974- |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016009505
245 10 Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human : |bnew worlds, maps and monsters / |cSurekha Davies.
264  1 Cambridge : |bCambridge University Press, |c2016.
300    1 online resource (xxiii, 355 pages)
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490 1  Cambridge social and cultural histories ; |v24
500    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016).
520    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should - be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.
650  0 Cartography |zEurope |xHistory |y16th century.
650  0 Cartography |zEurope |xHistory |y17th century.
650  0 Geography |xSociological aspects.
651  0 Western Hemisphere |vMaps.
655  7 Maps. |2lcgft |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026387
730 0  Cambridge University Press. |pHistory.
776 08  |iPrint version: |z9781107036673
830  0 Cambridge social and cultural histories ; |v24.