Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

Surekha Davies

379 pages paperback 2016

3 editions

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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