Implicit Understandings
Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I. European Visions of Others in the Late Middle Ages:
1. The outer world of the European middle ages Seymour Phillips
2. Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps John B. Friedman
3. Spain circa 1492: social values and structures Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada
4. The conquests of the Canary Islands Eduardo Aznar Vallejo
5. Tales of distinction: European ethnography and the Caribbean Peter Hulme
Part II. Europeans in the Vision of Other Peoples
6. Persian perceptions of Mongols and Europeans David Morgan
7. Sightings: initial Nahua reactions to Spanish culture James Lockhart
8. Dialogues of the deaf: Europeans on the Atlantic Coast of Africa Wyatt MacGaffey
9. Early Southeast Asian categorizations of Europeans Anthony Reid
10. Beyond the Cape: the Portuguese encounter with the Peoples of South Asia Chandra Richard de Silva
11. The 'Indianness' of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of Other Ronald P. Toby
Part III. Adjustments to Encounter:
12. Essay on objects: interpretations of distance made tangible Mary W. Helms
13. The indigenous ethnographer: the indio ladino as historian Rolena Adorno
14. What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late Ming society Willard J. Peterson
15. Demerits and deadly sins: Jesuit moral tracts in late Ming China Ann Waltner
Part IV. Observers Observed: Reflections on Encounters in the Age of Captain Cook:
16. Theatricality of observing and being observed: 'Eighteenth-century Europe' 'discovers' the ?-century Pacific Greg Dening
17. North America in the era of Captain Cook: three glimpses of Indian European contact in the age of the American Revolution Peter H. Wood
18. An accidental Australian tourist: or a feminist anthropologist at sea and on land Diane Bell
19. Circumscribing circumcision/uncircumcision: an essay amidst the history of difficult description James A. Boon
Part V. Annotated Bibiliography.

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