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Catholic orientalism : Portuguese empire, Indian knowledge (16th-18th centuries)

Title
Catholic orientalism : Portuguese empire, Indian knowledge (16th-18th centuries) / Angela Barreto Xavier, Ines G. Županov.
Author
Xavier, Ângela Barreto
Publication
New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors
Županov, Ines G.
Description
xxxvi, 386 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Catholic Church > South Asia > History
  • Catholic Church
  • Katholische Kirche
  • Orientalism > History
  • 15.75 history of Asia
  • 89.91 imperialism
  • Orientalism
  • Portuguese colonies
  • Orientalismus
  • Romersk-katolska kyrkan
  • Portugal > Colonies > History. > Asia
  • Asia
  • South Asia
  • Indien
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-376) and index.
Contents
Imperial itineraries -- Making India classic, exotic, and Oriental -- Empire and the village -- Natural history : physicians, merchants, and missionaries -- Catholic meridian -- Religion and civility in "Brahmanism" : Jesuit experiments -- Franciscan orientalism -- Portuguese linguistic empire : translation and conversion -- Contested knowledge -- Orientalists from within : Indian genealogists, philologists, and historians -- Archives and the end of Catholic orientalism -- Catholic orientalism as tragedy.
ISBN
  • 9780199452675
  • 0199452679
LCCN
  • 2015303047
  • 9780199452675
OCLC
  • ocn905646387
  • 905646387
  • SCSB-1858920
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library