Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-329) and indexes.
Contents:
The methodizing of travel in the sixteenth century : a tale of three cities -- Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres -- Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Englightenment -- The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description -- Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold -- August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples -- From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.
Series:
Studies in anthropology and history, 1055-2464 ; v. 13
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