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A Savage Mirror
Michael Wintroub
其他書名
Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France
出版Stanford University Press, 2006
主題History / Europe / FranceHistory / Modern / 16th Century
ISBN08047487219780804748728
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MBEjEjq7pmoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A Savage Mirror is about the New World, royal ritual, and the sensibilities that defined a new class of elites. It takes as its starting point the royal entry of Henri II into Rouen in 1550. By all accounts, this ritual was among the most spectacular ever staged. It included an "exact" replica of a Brazilian village, with fifty "savages" kidnapped from the New World. The book aims to understand what the French made of these Brazilian cannibals, and the significance of putting them in a festival honoring the king. The resulting analysis provides an investigation of France's changing social structure, its religious beliefs, its humanist culture, and its complicated commercial and symbolic relations with the New World. The book will appeal not only to scholars of early modern history, but to those interested in cross-cultural contact, cultural studies, civic ritual, museography, and history of literature, science, religion, art, and anthropology.