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Ordering Customs is an intellectual and cultural history of the production and circulation of ethnographic knowledge in early modern Venice. It examines how a range of figures—diplomats, bureaucrats, printers, readers, and ordinary Venetians—produced, used, and circulated information about customs from the sixteenth through the early seventeenth centuries.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Study of Customs
2 Ambassadors as Ethnographers
3 Ethnography and the Venetian State
4 Reading Ethnography in Early Modern Venice
5 Ethnography, the City, and the Place of Religious Minorities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
KATHRYN TAYLOR is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Taylor specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Italy and the Mediterranean, with a focus on the history of cultural mediation, ethnography, and religious conversion. Their articles have appeared in
History of European Ideas,
Sixteenth Century Journal, and
Journal of Early Modern History.
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Ordering Customs is an intellectual and cultural history of the production and circulation of ethnographic knowledge in early modern Venice. It examines how a range of figures—diplomats, bureaucrats, printers, readers, and ordinary Venetians—produced, used, and circulated information about customs from the sixteenth through the early seventeenth centuries.
