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Engraving the savage the New World and techniques of civilization

Title: Engraving the savage [electronic resource] : the New World and techniques of civilization / Michael Gaudio.
Author: Gaudio, Michael.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

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1 online resource (xxv, 207 p.) : ill.

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Engraving the savage (Online)

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Engraving the savage (Online)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-199) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: White pebbles in the dark forest -- Savage marks: the scriptive techniques of early modern ethnography -- Making sense of smoke: engraving and ornament in de Bry's America -- Flatness and protuberance: reforming the image in Protestant print culture -- The art of scratch: wood engraving and picture-writing in the 1880s.

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