The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks / / edited by Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong and Elmer Kolfin.

• Superior document: Intersections ; v. 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Huigen, Siegfried.; Jong, Jan L. de.; Kolfin, Elmer.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Notes: Most of the contributions to this volume were first presented during a conference in the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden, The Netherlands, on October 23-24, 2008.

For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge. The commercial networks of the Dutch trading companies provided an infrastructure which was accessible to people with a scholarly interest in the exotic world. The present collection of essays brings together a number of studies about knowledge construction that depended on the Dutch trading networks. Contributors include: Paul Arblaster, Hans den Besten, Frans Blom, Britt Dams, Adrien Delmas, Alette Fleischer, Antje Flüchter, Michiel van Groesen, Henk de Groot, Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Grégoire Holtz, Siegfried Huigen, Elspeth Jajdelska, Maria-Theresia Leuker, Edwin van Meerkerk, Bruno Naarden, and Christina Skott.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin -- Introduction / Siegfried Huigen -- Elias Herckmans. A Poet At The Borders Of Dutch Brazil / Britt Dams -- Officers Of The West India Company, Their Networks, And Their Personal Memories Of Dutch Brazil / Michiel Van Groesen -- The Butterfly Effect. Embodied Cognition And Perceptual Knowledge In Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium / Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- Picturing New Netherland And New York. Dutch-Anglo Transfer Of New World Information / Frans R.E. Blom -- Piracy And Play: Two Catholic Appropriations Of Nieuhof ‘s Gezantschap / Paul Arblaster -- Knowledge Transfer And Cultural Appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius’s ‘D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer’ (1705) / Maria-Theresia Leuker -- Antiquarian Ambonese: François Valentyn’s Comparative Ethnography (1724) / Siegfried Huigen -- Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen’Emon And Arai Hakuseki. An Early Exchange Of Knowledge Between Japan And The Netherlands / Henk De Groot -- Witsen’s Studies Of Inner Eurasia / Bruno Naarden -- (Ex)changing Knowledge And Nature At The Cape Of Good Hope, Circa 1652–1700 / Alette Fleischer -- A Badly Harvested Field: The Growth Of Linguistic Knowledge And The Dutch Cape Colony Until 1796 / Hansn De Besten -- Writing History In The Age Of Discovery, According To La Popelinière, 16th–17th Centuries / Adrien Delmas -- The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron) / Grégoire Holtz -- ‘Aus Den Fürnembsten Indianischen Reisebeschreibungen Zusammengezogen’. Knowledge About India In Early Modern Germany / Antje Flüchter -- The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century / Christina Skott -- Unknown Unknowns. Ignorance Of The Indies Among Late Seventeenth-Century Scots / Elspeth Jajdelska -- Colonial Objects And The Display Of Power. The Curious Case Of The Cabinet Of William V And The Dutch India Companies / Edwin Van Meerkerk -- Index Nominum / S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin.