TY  - GEN
T1  - Ordering customs : ethnographic thought in early modern Venice
T2  - The Early Modern Exchange
A1  - Taylor, Kathryn
LA  - English
PP  - Newark, DE
PB  - University of Delaware Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1378391606
AB  - "Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a trove of unpublished sources-diplomatic correspondence, court records, diaries, and inventories-to show that the study of customs, rituals, and ways of life not only became central in how Venetians sought to apprehend other peoples, but also had a very real impact at the level of policy, shaping how the Venetian state governed minority populations in the city and its empire. In contrast with the familiar image of ethnography as the product of overseas imperial and missionary encounters, the book points to a more complicated set of origins"--
OP  - 267
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - GN585.I8 T38 2023
SN  - 1644533030
SN  - 9781644533031
SN  - 9781644533000
KW  - Ethnology : Italy : Venice : History.
KW  - Venice (Italy) : Foreign relations : 1508-1797.
KW  - Venice (Italy) : Ethnic relations : History : 17th century.
KW  - Ambassadors : Italy : Venice : Correspondence.
KW  - Venice (Italy) : Politics and government : 1508-1797.
KW  - Ethnologie : Italie : Venise : Histoire.
KW  - Venise (Italie) : Relations extérieures : 1508-1797.
KW  - Ambassadeurs : Italie : Venise : Correspondance.
KW  - Venise (Italie) : Administration : 1508-1797.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
KW  - Ambassadors
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Italy : Venice
KW  - 1508-1797
KW  - history, venice, renaissance, italy, culture, ethnicity, ethnographic writing, 16th century, 17th century, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, 1500s, 1600s, customs, rituals.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
KW  - Personal correspondence
ER  -