The Male Present Versus the Female Past
Historians and Japan’s Ancient Female Emperors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Patricia Tsurumi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 71-78 |
| Publication date | 1982-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1982.10412671 |
| OpenAlex | W2327417197 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
William H. Goetzmann’s colorful portrayal of the “winning of the American West,” Exploration and Empire, suggests that explorers’ records tell us at least as much about the old world the explorer leaves as they do about the new world he or she encounters. The persuasive thesis of this fine book is “that explorers, as they go out into the unknown, are ‘programmed’ by the knowledge, values, and objectives of the civilized centers from which they depart. They are alert to discover evidence of the things they have been sent to find.” Throughout this encyclopedic account of nineteenth century explorers in Western America flash vivid images of cartographers reproducing prevailing but erroneous notions regarding North American geography, of artists documenting landscape and inhabitants through the eyes of European painters, of botanists and zoologists romantically classifying exotic species with “little, if any, idea of ecology or the relationship of the birds and animals to their environment and the corresponding life and food cycle.” The cultural tools these travelers brought with them did not always encourage accurate record-taking: map charting entered the realm of fictional geography and endless catalogs of plants and animals contributed little to scientific comprehension of the universe
Ancient history · Archaeology · Empire · Genealogy · Geography · Realm · History · Japanese History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |