Geographical Curiosities and Transformative Exchange in the Nanban Century (c. 1549-c. 1647)

This essay focuses on various forms of information and transformative exchange promoted within the space of Jesuit missions in Asia. Beyond past and current implicit assertions of alleged European predestination and superiority in disclosing the orbis terrarum, still in the late sixteenth and early...

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Main Author: Angelo Cattaneo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-12-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/329

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