The people of Calicut: objects, texts, and images in the Age of Proto-Ethnography

Some early sixteenth-century works by artists from southern Germany (Albrecht Dürer, Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht Altdorfer, Jörg Breu) representing the ‘people of Calicut’ (which was then supposed to be accessible from Europe both in an eastward and westward direction) are explored in terms of their co...

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Main Author: Christian Feest
Format: Printed Book
Published: Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Cienc. Hum., Belém, 2014
Subjects:
VISUAL REPRESENTATION; > MATERIAL CULTURE; > ANTHROPOLOGY - HISTORY
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/005385.pdf
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