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Before Orientalism : Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before OrientalismDDC classification:
  • 303.48/209
LOC classification:
  • GT5240 -- .P55 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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.
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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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