Collecting Across Cultures
Collecting Across Cultures In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that…
Specifikacia Collecting Across Cultures
Collecting Across Cultures
In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys.
But the passion for acquiring unfamiliar items rippled across many lands. Objects traveled various routes--personal, imperial, missionary, or trade--and moved not only across space but also across cultures.Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities. The court in Java marveled at, collected, and displayed myriad goods brought through its halls.
African princes traded captured members of other African groups so they could get the newest kinds of cloth produced in
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