Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India Through European Eyes, 1250-1625 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521770552)

This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. Focusing on European travelers in India and their analysis of Hindu society, politics and religion, it also offers a detailed and systematic study of the variety of travel narratives describing South India from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition, the book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes toward non-Europeans.

Author: Joan-Pau Rubies
ISBN-10: 0521770556
ISBN-13: 9780521770552
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2001
Pages: 470
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.85w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2001 pg. 366