From white to yellow the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735

Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery -- Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1...

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Veröffentlicht: Montreal u.a. McGill-Queen's University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas 63
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Zusammenfassung:Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery -- Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640). 3. Initial observations of the Japanese ; 4. The Japanese position in contemporary hierarchies ; 5. Concrete mirrors of a new human order ; 6. "Race" and its cognitive limits during the phase of observation -- Phase Three. Reconsideration : Antecendents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735). 7. Dutch reappraisal of the Japanese body and origins ; 8. Power, status, and the Japanese position in the global order ; 9. In search of a new taxonomy : botany, medicine, and the Japanese ; 10. "Race" and its perceptual limits during the phase of reconsideration -- Conclusion : The discourse of race in early modern Europe and the Japanese case
Beschreibung:"Legal deposit fourth quarter 2014"--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-615) and index
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