Screen LibraryBefore orientalism : asian peoples and cultures in european travel writing, 1245-1510 /
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 neutra...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The middle ages series
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| 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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 6 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208948 |
| Index Number: | GT5240 |
| CLC: | K930.9 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. On Orientalism -- Chapter 2. Travelers, Tales, Audiences -- Chapter 3. Travel Writing and the Making of Europe -- Chapter 4. Food and Foodways -- Chapter 5. Femininities -- Chapter 6. Sex -- Chapter 7. Civility -- Chapter 8. Bodies -- Afterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |