Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany - New Worlds in Print Culture

As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography.

List of contents

Wonder and the Working Print: an Introduction Centering the Self: Mapping the Nuremberg Chronicle and the Limits of the World The Wild Man, the German Body, and the Emperor's New Clothes Hans Burgkmair's Peoples of Africa and India (1508) and the Foundations of Ethnography in Print Recuperating the Eyewitness: Jörg Breu's Images of Islamic and Hindu Culture in Ludovico Varthema's Travels (1515) The Amerindian's Moveable Feast: From Cannibal Roast to Fools' Fete

About the author

STEPHANIE LEITCH is an Assistant Professor of Northern European Art at Florida State University, USA.

Summary

As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography.

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'...an important investigation that can be added to a number of recent works from different fields...it continues a trend in scholarship that takes seriously the woodcut medium as a space for experimentation and novelty. Leitch not only as mapped ethnography in early modern Germany, she also has mapped herself onto the field.' - College Arts Association

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'...an important investigation that can be added to a number of recent works from different fields...it continues a trend in scholarship that takes seriously the woodcut medium as a space for experimentation and novelty. Leitch not only as mapped ethnography in early modern Germany, she also has mapped herself onto the field.' - College Arts Association

Product details

• Authors: S Leitch, S. Leitch, Stephanie Leitch
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2010
• EAN: 9781349382699
• ISBN: 978-1-349-38269-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: History of Text Technologies; History of Text Technologies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; B, Cultural History, History, European History, world history, Central Europe, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Human Geography, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe, Central—History, History of Germany and Central Europe, ethnography;Europe;Germany