Empire of the senses : sensory practices of colonialism in early America / / edited by Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite.
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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| Superior document: | Early American History, Volume 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American history ;
Volume 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 pages) :; color illustrations. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite
- Cultural Encounters
- Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters / Céline 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
- 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 / Marília dos Santos Lopes
- 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
- 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.