As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography.

Autorentext
STEPHANIE LEITCH ****is an Assistant Professor of Northern European Art at Florida State University, USA.

Inhalt
Wonder and the Working Print: an Introduction Centering the Self: Mapping the Nuremberg Chronicle and the Limits of the World The Wild Man, the German Body, and the Emperor's New Clothes Hans Burgkmair's Peoples of Africa and India (1508) and the Foundations of Ethnography in Print Recuperating the Eyewitness: Jörg Breu's Images of Islamic and Hindu Culture in Ludovico Varthema's Travels (1515) The Amerindian's Moveable Feast: From Cannibal Roast to Fools' Fete