Empire of the senses : sensory practices of colonialism in early America /

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Empire of the Senses brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cultural encounters, colo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hacke, Daniela (Editor, Contributor), Musselwhite, Paul (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Early American history series ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Senses and sensation > Social aspects > America > History.
Sens et sensations > Aspect social > Amérique > Histoire.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
Manners and customs.
Senses and sensation > Social aspects.
America > Social life and customs.
Europe > Colonies > America > History.
Amérique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Europe > Colonies > Histoire.
America.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: making sense of colonial encounters and new worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite
  • Part I. Cultural encounters
  • Touching on communication: visual and textual representations of touch as friendship in early colonial encounters / Celine Carayon
  • Mission soundscapes: demons, Jesuits, and sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista espiritual (1639) / Jutta Toelle
  • Singing with strangers in early seventeenth-century New France / Michaela Ann Cameron
  • Part II. Colonial subjectivity
  • The pain of senses escaping: eighteenth-century Europeans and the sensory challenges of the Caribbean / Annika Raapke
  • Color visions: perceiving nature in the Portuguese Atlantic world / Marilia dos Santos Lopes
  • Part III. Structures of knowledge
  • Colonial sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the production of knowledge / Daniela Hacke
  • Merian and the pineapple: visual representation of the senses / Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy
  • "Delightful a fragrance": native American olfactory aesthetics within the eighteenth-century Anglo-American botanical community / Andrew Kettler
  • Part IV. Colonial projects
  • The aromas of flora's wide domains: cultivating gardens, aromas, and political subjects in the late seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Kate Mulry
  • Exploring underwater worlds: diving in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth-century British empire / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt.

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