Book ID: CBB327958036

Geografie del tempo: Viaggiatori europei tra i popoli nativi nel Nord America del Settecento (2022)

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Giulia Iannuzzi (Author)


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Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 324 pp.
Language: Italian

Questo libro ripercorre i testi di viaggiatori provenienti dal Vecchio Mondo che sono entrati in contatto con i popoli nativi del Nord America nel Settecento e che hanno tentato di comprenderne e scriverne la storia. Al centro dell’attenzione vi sono le conseguenze che questi incontri hanno avuto sull’idea di tempo nella mente europea. La curiosità proto-etnografica di amministratori coloniali, esploratori, commercianti, militari, naturalisti di origine francese e britannica, la loro osservazione della varietà sociale e culturale dei popoli nativi complica l’uso dell’uomo americano come esempio di “selvaggio” – nobile o ignobile – tipico delle teorizzazioni di progresso e sviluppo settecentesche. Nel sapere storico prodotto da questi testimoni assumono un ruolo centrale problemi legati alla comunicazione, alla traduzione, all’esistenza o meno di fonti scritte, che rivelano affascinanti tensioni tra un eurocentrismo epistemologico di fondo e tentativi di relativizzazione culturale. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… This book traces the texts of travelers from the Old World who came into contact with the native peoples of North America in the eighteenth century and who attempted to understand and write their history. At the center of attention are the consequences that these meetings had on the idea of ​​time in the European mind. The proto-ethnographic curiosity of colonial administrators, explorers, traders, military, naturalists of French and British origin, their observation of the social and cultural variety of native peoples complicates the use of American man as an example of "savage" - noble or ignoble - typical of the eighteenth-century theories of progress and development. In the historical knowledge produced by these witnesses, problems related to communication, translation, the existence or not of written sources play a central role, revealing fascinating tensions between a basic epistemological Eurocentrism and attempts at cultural relativization.]

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Authors & Contributors
Wood, Susan Marie
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna
Mattig, Ruprecht
Berthelette, Scott
David J. Silverman
Kugel, Rebecca
Concepts
Geography
Anthropology
Travel; exploration
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Ethnography
Colonialism
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Enlightenment
Places
North America
Australia
Russia
Europe
China
Hellenistic world
Institutions
University of California
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