Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

by Surekha Davies

Book Overview

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108431828
• ISBN13: 9781108431828
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"