Other Orientalisms analyses various forms of knowledge about India through the circulation of people, ideas, knowledge, images and objects between Florence and Bombay.
In the second half of the nineteenth century Florence became an important centre for studies on India, manifested in the organisation of exhibitions, museums, journals and international conferences. Inspired by the relationship between two Indianists – the Italian Angelo De Gubernatis, a teacher of Sanskrit in Florence and the Goan José Gerson da Cunha, a physician and historian in Bombay – this book discloses an India that emerged from different places, peopled by a multiplicity of voices. The institutional, intellectual and museum experience of Florentine orientalism, albeit peripheral, further enhances the debate on knowledge and colonial power that has engaged social and human sciences in recent decades.
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Book Title
Altri orientalismi
Book Subtitle
L'India a Firenze 1860-1900
Authors
Filipa Lowndes Vicente
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
374
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-150-8
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-148-5
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-150-8
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-152-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-887-6
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919