Before Orientalism : Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- PART I. THEORY, PEOPLE, GENRES -- Chapter 1. On Orientalism -- Chapter 2. Travelers, Tales, Audiences -- Chapter 3. Travel Writing and the Making of Europe -- PART II: ENVISIONING ORIENTS -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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