Surekha Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Surekha Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Surekha |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A lexander B evilacqua and F rederic C lark , editors. Thinking in the Past Tense
In the words of the editors of Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations, Alexander Bevilacqua and Frederic Clark, “the history of ideas has become intellectual history” (2), a field in which thoughts, beliefs, and ideas are examined as phenomena that emerge from a substrate of people: their social relations, political infrastructure, experiences, and interactions with landscape. Most historians no longer view ideas as springing from the mi…
Visual Voyages
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, published on the occasion of the extraordinary, eponymous Huntington Library exhibition, is effectively a successor to New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi (1992), a book that likewise distilled the current state of the field into an original and stimulating volume to accompany a…
Insatiable Appetites
Book Review| August 01 2018 Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World. By Watson, Kelly L.. Early American Places. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 239 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Surekha Davies Surekha Davies Western Connecticut State University Search for other works by this …
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
The Worldmakers
Science, New Worlds, and the Classical Tradition
The articles in this volume offer interventions in the history of encounters between new worlds and the intellectual traditions inherited from and informed by classical antiquity, in the period roughly spanning 1450-1850. Ranging in scope from medical treatments to devil-worship, from cosmography to climate theory, from rhetorical colloquies to the interpretation of widow-burning, they show how early modern scholars, artisans, and travelers drew …
Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany
Carina L Johnson, Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542–1555
This article explores the impulse behind the outpouring of extraordinarily ornate maps representing the inhabitants of Brazil that emanated from Normandy in the mid-sixteenth century. It aims to understand the reasons behind the iconography of Brazil, a region of particular commercial interest for the French. Whereas maps produced elsewhere in this period emphasize the presence of fierce cannibals in Brazil, Norman examples highlight peaceful rel…
Obituary
Professor Neil L. Whitehead 1956-2012 This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Neil L. Whitehead (19 March 1956-22 March 2012). Neil was a key participant of the workshop Encounte
The Wondrous East in the Renaissance Geographical Imagination
During the Renaissance, readers of accounts about the Far East faced the problem of assessing sources from a range of periods, often produced by writers who were not eyewitnesses. This article considers the responses of mapmakers and geographers to claims about the East by analysing expressions of belief, surprise, doubt and incredulity on maps and in geographical works. By considering examples from the late medieval period to the seventeenth cen…
From Maps to Mummy-Curses
This volume explores the ways in which distinctive representational modes—in textual, visual and artefactual media—work as contact zones for cultural encounters. The case studies, whose subjects range chronologically from classical antiquity to the present day, historicize the objects, subjects, media and epistemologies of ethnography. The contributors explore gender and cultural hybridity in Herodotus' History, mapping and pre-modern discourses …
America and Amerindians in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550)
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550) was produced in more sixteenth‐century editions that any book apart from the Bible. A descriptive geography prefaced by a series of maps, it offered the reader an overview of the world's peoples, natural history and geography. While German cosmographers had been instrumental in the emergence of the notion of America as the fourth part of the world, Münster considered America as part of…
Secret Science
María M. Portuondo. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 335 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. tbls. maps. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–67534–3. - Volume 63 Issue 1
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
Catalin Avramescu, (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009), viii + 350 pp., £20.95/ $29.95 (hb), ISBN 978‐0‐691‐13327‐0 In recent decades, a number of studies of the history of
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
The Navigational Iconography of Diogo Ribeiro's 1529 Vatican Planisphere
Agency and Awareness in Cross-Cultural Encounters
What is a force? Who is it? What is it capable of? Is it a subject, text, object, energy or thing? How many forces are there? Who is strong and who is weak? Is this a battle? Is this a game? Is this a market?(Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France)
The Wondrous East in the Renaissance Geographical Imagination
During the Renaissance, readers of accounts about the Far East faced the problem of assessing sources from a range of periods, often produced by writers who were not eyewitnesses. This article considers the responses of mapmakers and geographers to claims about the East by analysing expressions of belief, surprise, doubt and incredulity on maps and in geographical works. By considering examples from the late medieval period to the seventeenth cen…
Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542–1555
This article explores the impulse behind the outpouring of extraordinarily ornate maps representing the inhabitants of Brazil that emanated from Normandy in the mid-sixteenth century. It aims to understand the reasons behind the iconography of Brazil, a region of particular commercial interest for the French. Whereas maps produced elsewhere in this period emphasize the presence of fierce cannibals in Brazil, Norman examples highlight peaceful rel…
From Maps to Mummy-Curses
This volume explores the ways in which distinctive representational modes—in textual, visual and artefactual media—work as contact zones for cultural encounters. The case studies, whose subjects range chronologically from classical antiquity to the present day, historicize the objects, subjects, media and epistemologies of ethnography. The contributors explore gender and cultural hybridity in Herodotus' History, mapping and pre-modern discourses …
The Navigational Iconography of Diogo Ribeiro's 1529 Vatican Planisphere
Agency and Awareness in Cross-Cultural Encounters
What is a force? Who is it? What is it capable of? Is it a subject, text, object, energy or thing? How many forces are there? Who is strong and who is weak? Is this a battle? Is this a game? Is this a market?(Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France)
Agency and Awareness in Cross-Cultural Encounters
What is a force? Who is it? What is it capable of? Is it a subject, text, object, energy or thing? How many forces are there? Who is strong and who is weak? Is this a battle? Is this a game? Is this a market?(Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France)
The Navigational Iconography of Diogo Ribeiro's 1529 Vatican Planisphere
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Secret Science
María M. Portuondo. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 335 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. tbls. maps. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–67534–3. - Volume 63 Issue 1
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
Catalin Avramescu, (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009), viii + 350 pp., £20.95/ $29.95 (hb), ISBN 978‐0‐691‐13327‐0 In recent decades, a number of studies of the history of
America and Amerindians in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550)
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550) was produced in more sixteenth‐century editions that any book apart from the Bible. A descriptive geography prefaced by a series of maps, it offered the reader an overview of the world's peoples, natural history and geography. While German cosmographers had been instrumental in the emergence of the notion of America as the fourth part of the world, Münster considered America as part of…
Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542–1555
This article explores the impulse behind the outpouring of extraordinarily ornate maps representing the inhabitants of Brazil that emanated from Normandy in the mid-sixteenth century. It aims to understand the reasons behind the iconography of Brazil, a region of particular commercial interest for the French. Whereas maps produced elsewhere in this period emphasize the presence of fierce cannibals in Brazil, Norman examples highlight peaceful rel…
Obituary
Professor Neil L. Whitehead 1956-2012 This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Neil L. Whitehead (19 March 1956-22 March 2012). Neil was a key participant of the workshop Encounte
The Wondrous East in the Renaissance Geographical Imagination
During the Renaissance, readers of accounts about the Far East faced the problem of assessing sources from a range of periods, often produced by writers who were not eyewitnesses. This article considers the responses of mapmakers and geographers to claims about the East by analysing expressions of belief, surprise, doubt and incredulity on maps and in geographical works. By considering examples from the late medieval period to the seventeenth cen…
From Maps to Mummy-Curses
This volume explores the ways in which distinctive representational modes—in textual, visual and artefactual media—work as contact zones for cultural encounters. The case studies, whose subjects range chronologically from classical antiquity to the present day, historicize the objects, subjects, media and epistemologies of ethnography. The contributors explore gender and cultural hybridity in Herodotus' History, mapping and pre-modern discourses …
Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany
Carina L Johnson, Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Science, New Worlds, and the Classical Tradition
The articles in this volume offer interventions in the history of encounters between new worlds and the intellectual traditions inherited from and informed by classical antiquity, in the period roughly spanning 1450-1850. Ranging in scope from medical treatments to devil-worship, from cosmography to climate theory, from rhetorical colloquies to the interpretation of widow-burning, they show how early modern scholars, artisans, and travelers drew …
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
The Worldmakers
Insatiable Appetites
Book Review| August 01 2018 Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World. By Watson, Kelly L.. Early American Places. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 239 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Surekha Davies Surekha Davies Western Connecticut State University Search for other works by this …
Visual Voyages
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, published on the occasion of the extraordinary, eponymous Huntington Library exhibition, is effectively a successor to New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi (1992), a book that likewise distilled the current state of the field into an original and stimulating volume to accompany a…
A lexander B evilacqua and F rederic C lark , editors. Thinking in the Past Tense
In the words of the editors of Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations, Alexander Bevilacqua and Frederic Clark, “the history of ideas has become intellectual history” (2), a field in which thoughts, beliefs, and ideas are examined as phenomena that emerge from a substrate of people: their social relations, political infrastructure, experiences, and interactions with landscape. Most historians no longer view ideas as springing from the mi…
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