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Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century: A Styles of Thinking Approach
Alessandro Zir
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As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals. For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead, this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and tackled with a theoretical tool_styles of thinking_not yet used in Luso-Brazilian studies, and coming from another field of inquiry: philosophy and history of science. By doing ... Read more
As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals. For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead, this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and tackled with a theoretical tool_styles of thinking_not yet used in Luso-Brazilian studies, and coming from another field of inquiry: philosophy and history of science. By doing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611470208
SKU
V9781611470208
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About Alessandro Zir
Alessandro Zir is researcher at the Latin-American Institute of Advanced Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Reviews for Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century: A Styles of Thinking Approach
Zir offers some very important insights into the problem of commensurability that will be useful to historians interested in early encounters, and his book constitutes a good introduction for historians to the work of Ian Hacking. ... Zir's book is thought-provoking and worth wrestling with.
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