The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks
edited by Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong and Elmer Kolfin
Bok · Engelsk · 2010
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| Utgitt | Leiden : Brill , 2010
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| Omfang | XXIII, 441 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | 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. - Siegfried Huigen, Introduction The Americas Britt Dams, 'Elias Herckmans. A poet at the borders of Dutch Brazil' Michiel van Groesen, 'Officers of the West India Company, their networks, and their personal memories of Dutch Brazil' Julie Hochstrasser, 'The butterfly effect. Embodied cognition and perceptual knowledge in Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium' Frans Blom, 'Picturing New Netherland and New York. Dutch-Anglo transfer of new world information' Asia Paul Arblaster, 'Piracy and play: two Catholic appropriations of Nieuhof's gezantschap' Maria-Theresa Leuker, 'Knowledge transfer and cultural appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius's 'D'amboinsche rariteitkamer' (1705)' Siegfried Huigen, 'Antiquarian Ambonese: Francois Valentyn's comparative ethnography (1724)' Henk de Groot, 'Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen'emon and Arai Hakuseki- An early exchange of knowledge between Japan and the Netherlands' Bruno Naarden, 'Witsen's Studies Of Inner Eurasia' South Africa Alette Fleischer, '(Ex)changing knowledge and nature at the Cape of Good Hope, circa 1652-1700' Hans den Besten, 'A badly harvested field: the growth of linguistic knowledge and the Dutch Cape colony until 1796' Europe Adrien Delmas, 'Writing history in the age of discovery, according to La Popeliniere, 16th - 17th centuries' Gregoire Holtz, 'The model of the VOC in early seventeenth century France (Hugo Grotius and Pierre Bergeron)' Antje Fluchter, "Aus den furnembsten indianischen Reisebeschreibungen zusammengezogen'. Knowledge about India in Early Modern Germany' Christina Granroth, 'The VOC and Swedish natural history: the transmission of scientific knowledge in the eighteenth century' Elspeth Jajdelska, 'Unknown unknowns; ignorance of the Indies among late seventeenth-century Scots' Edwin van Meerkerk, 'Colonial objects and the display of power. The curious case of the cabinet of William V and the Dutch India Companies' Index
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| ISBN | 9789004186590
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