Facing Each Other (2 Volumes)

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Contents: Introduction Part I: General and theoretical: The medieval West and the Indian Ocean: an oneiric horizon, Jacques Le Goff The image of the Barbarian in medieval Europe, W. R. Jones Aboriginal property and Western theory: recovering a middle ground, James Tully New worlds and Renaissance ethnology, Joan-Pau Rubies The methodising of travel in the 16th century: a tale of three cities, Justin Stagl The discovery of America and the discovery of man, J. H. Elliott Strange things, gross terms, curious customs: the rehearsal of cultures in the late Renaissance, Steven Mullaney Image de l'autre et image de soi-mA*me dans le discours ethnologique au XVIIIe siecle, Roger Mercier La connaissance des autres: theories et pratiques, Tzvetan Todorov Asia: Asia in the eyes of Europe: the 17th century, Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley Christian and Chinese visions of the world in the 17th century, Jacques Gernet Creating an image of Europe for China: Aleni's Hsi-fang ta-wen, John L. Mish Part II: Imagined peripheries: the world and its peoples in Japanese cartographic imagination, Masayuki Sato China, the Confucian ideal and the European Age of Enlightenment, Walter W. Davis Diderot and the image of China in 18th-century France, Huguette Cohen America: Amerindian views of French culture in the 17th century, Cornelius J. Jaenen Facing up to Caribbean history, Jalil Sued-Badillo English perceptions of treachery, 1583-1640: the case of the American 'savages', Karen Ordahl Kupperman Africa: White kings on black kings: Rui da Pina and the problem of black African sovereignty, Peter Russell Scratches on the face of the country or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the bushmen, Mary Louise Pratt African history, anthropology, and the rationality of the natives, Wyatt MacGaffey Pacific: The exotic as erotic: Captain Cook at Tahiti, Roy Porter The Pacific Ocean: the 18th century's 'New World', Alan Frost Possessing Tahiti, Greg Denin