Artefacts of Encounter: Materialising Emotions in Fifty Early Modern Representations

by O'Brien, Karen
ISBN: 9781032361116
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Overview

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.

The artefacts selected for inclusion in this volume convey early modern visual dialogues, value systems and imagery through paintings, photographs, maps, drawings, buildings, books, icons, sacred sites and entities, dwellings and natural settings. Placing these objects within a comparative and international context, O'Brien considers the representation of these interactions as they are expressed through a wide gamut of human emotional experiences such as life, death, grief, pain, pleasure, belief, sadness, and conflict, along with the extended perspective of image reproduction. In doing so, the book locates the realities of early modern existence - the emotional, legal, spiritual, and violent encounters that encompass everyday experiences - in an expansive and varying spatial, cultural, geographical and temporal context.

The book will interest students, scholars and general readers within a broad range of history subdisciplines including early modern history, Indigenous history, comparative history and socio-legal history and is also a useful text for undergraduate courses in politics, law, Indigenous studies and global studies.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: O'Brien, Karen
  • ISBN: 9781032361116
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2025
Language: English