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Before Orientalism : Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 / Kim M. Phillips.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Middle Ages seriesPublisher: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812245486
  • 0812245482
Other title:
  • Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48209 23
LOC classification:
  • GT5240 .P55 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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