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Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil
This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropology, botany, linguistics, literature, book history, medieval and early modern history, and art history. The chapters contextualize the treatise vis-à-vis its predecessors and contemporaneous works of natural history and examine its botanical, zoological, and linguistic accuracy and usefulness in the present day. Put together, the seven chapters of this volume present a kaleidosco...
A World History of the Seas
Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, From Harbour to Horizon takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.
A natureza degenerante
Neste novo livro da Coleção Estudos Clássicos, Henrique F. Cairus faz uma ponte com a literatura clássica para construir um retrato atualíssimo da sociedade brasileira. Segundo Fernando Santoro, "o objeto deste livro não é a natureza do lugar ou das suas gentes; mas o próprio conceito de natureza, com que se quis entender o lugar e suas gentes. Que conceito é este – physis – natureza –, atrelado desde sua origem grega aos tratados de medicina? Physikós é o naturalista que estuda e trata a vida dos humanos, médico, filósofo e, nas origens, até poeta. O conceito desabrocha na tensão com outros conceitos como tékhne – arte, técnica, e nómos – lei, norma. Estes concei...
Connecting Worlds
This book establishes a dialogue between colonial studies and the history of science, contributing to a renewed analytical framework grounded on a trans-national, trans-cultural and trans-imperial perspective. It proposes a historiographical revision based on self-organization and cooperation theories, as well as the role of traditionally marginalized agents, including women, in processes that contributed to the building of a First Global Age, from 1400 to 1800. The intermediaries between European and local bearers of knowledge played a central role, together with cultural translation processes involving local practices of knowledge production and the global circulation of persons, commoditi...
The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628-1648)
This book brings together the Dutch transcription and the English translation of fifteen documents pertaining to the history of the Tapuia indigenous people in colonial Dutch Brazil for the first time.
Dynastic Colonialism
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau, through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots, in Europe and beyond. Using over 140 carefully selected images, the authors co...
Real, Recent, Or Replica
"Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, artifact fraud, and illicit trade of archaeological materials"--
Mercenaries of Knowledge
Explores the strategies that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics.
Das Goldene Zeitalter global
Die Niederländische Republik war in vielerlei Hinsicht einzigartig im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit. Die hohe Urbanisierung, die geringe Zahl an Analphabeten und die religiöse Toleranz waren nur einige der vielen Besonderheiten. Hierzu gehörten auch der ungewöhnlich große Kunstbesitz und die immense Produktivität der Maler, die dieser Epoche den Namen "Goldenes Zeitalter" gab. Niederländische See- und Kaufleute verbanden, ausgehend von Nord- und Ostsee, die Weltmeere und vermittelten die Güter der entlegensten Regionen. So schildert das Buch die niederländische Präsenz in der Welt, die Interaktion mit den einheimischen Gesellschaften sowie die davon ausgehenden künstlerischen Wechselwirkungen vor Ort einschließlich ihrer Rückwirkungen auf Europa. Die Leser*innen folgen auf diese Weise der Kupferstecherin Maria Sibylla Merian auf der Reise nach Surinam, erleben die Förderung niederländischer Künstler und Gelehrter durch Christina von Schweden, werden Zeugen einer wahrhaften "Hollandomanie" in Japan und erfahren außerdem, wie Rembrandt die Kunst am indischen Mogulhof imitierte.
"Diz o índio..."
Nos últimos anos temos acompanhado o crescente número de estudantes indígenas que acessam as escolas e as universidades dos "brancos". Ao dominar nossos códigos culturais, eles fortalecem suas lutas pela garantia de seus direitos, o que faz muitos brasileiros afirmarem que "os índios de hoje estão mais espertos". O que Rafael Rogério nos revela em seu livro "Diz o índio...": Políticas indígenas no Vale Amazônico (1777-1798) que essa esperteza dos índios é muito mais antiga. Diante do profundo choque cultural provocado pelo contato que ameaçava o modo de vida dessa população, restava a estes povos aprender a se apropriar dos códigos do colonizador, de modo a garantir e amplia...
