Before Orientalism : Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 / Kim M. Phillips.
Material type: TextSeries: Middle Ages seriesPublisher: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780812245486
- 0812245482
- Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510
- 303.48209 23
- GT5240 .P55 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Theory, People, Genres : -- 1. On Orientalism -- 2. Travelers, Tales, Audiences -- 3. Travel Writing and the Making of Europe -- Part II. Envisioning Orients : -- 4. Food and Foodways -- 5. Femininities -- 6. Sex -- 7. Civility -- 8. Bodies -- Afterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages.
"Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and Southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring. "--Publisher's website.
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