Catholic orientalism

Angela Barreto Xavier

Catholic orientalism :Portuguese empire, Indian knowledge (16th-18th centuries) /Angela Barreto Xavier - ,New Delh :Oxford University Press 2015 - xxxvi, 386 pages illustrations maps ;23 cm

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.

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Orientalism -- History.
Orientalism.
Social processes
Social sciences

--Social sciences

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