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Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge
von: Gesa Mackenthun, Andrea Nicolas, Stephanie Wodianka
Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2017
ISBN: 9783830985679 , 316 Seiten
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: frei
Preis: 30,99 EUR
Book Cover
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Imprint
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Contents
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Introduction (Gesa Mackenthun, Andrea Nicolas, and Stephanie Wodianka)
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Travel: Approaching the Term
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Travel, Trade, and the Expansion of Europe
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Travel as Text and Discourse
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Travel and Knowledge Circulation
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Travel and the ‘Violence’ of Ethnographic Knowledge
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Local Knowledge, ‘Travelees’, and Counter Journeys
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Travel as Theory Metaphor
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Chapter Summaries
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Works Cited
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Chapter One. Travel/Landscapes. Wor(l)ds on Their Way to Transareal Travel Literature (Ottmar Ette)
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Escaping Landscapes
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Nomadic Knowledge
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Longed-for Connections
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Landscapes of Theory
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Tropical Landscapes of Islands
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Beginnings and Endings of the Travel Report
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Abandoning the Central Perspective
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Works Cited
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Chapter Two. Circulating Knowledge on Nature: Travelers and Informants, and the Changing Geography of Linnaean Natural History (Hanna Hodacs)
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Moving on – Traveling and Careers in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Informants, Naturalists, and the Circulation of Knowledge
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
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Chapter Three. The Arctic and the Cultural Archive: Adelbert von Chamisso’s "Reise um die Welt"/"Voyage Round the World" (Gabriele Dürbeck)
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Archive/Archives – Epistemological, Institutional, and Material Dimensions
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Chamisso’s Travelogue as an Intertextual Archive
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Collection, Circulation of Knowledge, and Power
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Ethnographical Interest and Detailed Descriptions
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Concluding Remarks
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Works Cited
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Chapter Four. Pathfinders in Latin America: The Travelogues of Lucio V. Mansilla and Désiré Charnay (Leila Gómez)
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Mansilla’s Pathfinders: Maps and Love
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The Female Pathfinder’s Love
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Désiré Charnay in Mexico and the Pathfinder as a Witness of Modernity
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
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Chapter Five. Telling Dreams: Oneiric Circulation in Early Modern ‘New France’ (Mary Baine Campbell)
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Chapter Six. “Communication That Belongs To No One”? Reading the Vocabularies and Dialogues in James Isham’s "Observations on Hudson’s Bay" (1743) (Bruce Greenfield)
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Writing for the Hudson’s Bay Company
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Isham’s Vocabularies and Dialogues
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Works Cited
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Chapter Seven. “Hell For Horses, Paradise For Women”: Power and Identity in Nineteenth-Century North African Narratives of Travel to Europe (Daniel Newman)
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The Travelers
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The Travelogues
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Works Cited
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Chapter Eight. Interrogating Travelers: On the Production of Western Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (Michael Harbsmeier)
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Chapter Nine. Traveling Texts: De-orientalizing Marco Polo’s "Le Devisement du monde" (Sharon Kinoshita)
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Marco Polo in the Popular Imagination
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Marco Polo and the Genealogies of Orientalism
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The World Empire of Letters
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Works Cited
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Chapter Ten. The Medium is the Knapsack. Johann Gottfried Seume’s Travelogue "Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802" (Rupert Gaderer)
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Chapter Eleven. Rome, Lieu de Connaissance, Lieu de l’Écriture (Friedrich Wolfzettel)
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Le Roman Sentimental Féminin
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Le Roman Historique et Social
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Le Roman Réaliste et l’Enquête Naturaliste
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Chapter Twelve. The Story of Kazimierz Nowak – the Man who Traveled Across Africa on Bicycle and Horseback in the 1930s, and the Aftermath of his Journey (?ukasz Wierzbicki)
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Chapter Thirteen. The Tourist ‘Thing’ in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Dean MacCannell)
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The Divided Subject
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Split Subjects in Motion
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Durkheim’s ‘Thing’
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The Tourist Object and its Field of Force
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How is the Tourist Thing Different from Things in General?
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How is the Tourist Thing Similar to Things in General?
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Tourist Imagery as a Positive Force Field
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The Divisions of the Tourist Object
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Tourist Imagery as a Negative Force Field – Virtual Travel?
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The Symbolic
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
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Contributors
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