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Contents: Introduction; Part I: General and theoretical: The medieval West and the Indian Ocean: an oneiric horizon, Jacques Le Goff; The image of the Barbarian in medieval Europe, W. R. Jones; Aboriginal property and Western theory: recovering a middle ground, James Tully; New worlds and Renaissance ethnology, Joan-Pau Rubiés; The methodising of travel in the 16th century: a tale of three cities, Justin Stagl; The discovery of America and the discovery of man, J. H. Elliott; Strange things, gross terms, curious customs: the rehearsal of cultures in the late Renaissance, Steven Mullaney; Image de l’autre et image de soi-même dans le discours ethnologique au XVIIIe siècle, Roger Mercier; La connaissance des autres: théories et pratiques, Tzvetan Todorov; Asia: Asia in the eyes of Europe: the 17th century, Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley; Christian and Chinese visions of the world in the 17th century, Jacques Gernet; Creating an image of Europe for China: Aleni’s Hsi-fang ta-wen, John L. Mish; Part II: Imagined peripheries: the world and its peoples in Japanese cartographic imagination, Masayuki Sato; China, the Confucian ideal and the European Age of Enlightenment, Walter W. Davis; Diderot and the image of China in 18th-century France, Huguette Cohen; America: Amerindian views of French culture in the 17th century, Cornelius J. Jaenen; Facing up to Caribbean history, Jalil Sued-Badillo; English perceptions of treachery, 1583-1640: the case of the American ’savages’, Karen Ordahl Kupperman; Africa: White kings on black kings: Rui da Pina and the problem of black African sovereignty, Peter Russell; Scratches on the face of the country; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the bushmen, Mary Louise Pratt; African history, anthropology, and the rationality of the natives, Wyatt MacGaffey; Pacific: The exotic as erotic: Captain Cook at Tahiti, Roy Porter; The Pacific Ocean: the 18th century’s ’New World’, Alan Frost; Possessing Tahiti, Greg Denin