{"product_id":"ethnography-and-encounter-the-dutch-and-english-in-seventeenth-century-south-asia-9789004471696","title":"Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents’ understandings of and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies informed institutional approaches to trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance. Its fine-grained comparisons of Dutch and English activities in seventeenth-century South Asia show how corporate ethnography was produced, how it underpinned given modes of conduct, and how it illuminates connections across space and time. Ethnography and Encounter identifies deep commonalities between Dutch and English discourses and practices, their indebtedness to pan-European ethnographic traditions, and their centrality to wider histories of European expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Series Editor’s Preface  List of Maps and Illustrations  Abbreviations  Glossary  Acknowledgements    Introduction   1\tEthnography and Encounter   2\tCompany Writing   3\tThe East India Companies in Seventeenth-Century South Asia   4\tPlan of the Book    PART 1: Corporate Ethnography  1 Company Writing and Early Modern Ethnography   1\tEthnography on Early Expeditions   2\tInstructions: Cordiality and Caution   3\tCivility and Barbarism   4\tDespotism   5\tCharacter and Complexion   6\t“Moors” and “Gentiles”    2 Writing Routines and the Making of Company Discourse   1\t‘Continuall and True Iournalls’   2\tThe VOC’s Memoir for the Writing of Reports   3\tThe Logic of Company Writing  PART 2: Accommodation and Conflict  3 Trade Relations and Representations: The EIC and VOC in Gujarat   1\t‘The Only Key to Open All the Rich and Best Trades’   2\tBrokerage and Trust    4 ‘No Thing but Feare Keepes a Moore in Awe’: Local Conflict and Quotidian Exchange   1\tRaids and Retaliations   2\tMutual Accommodations and Quotidian Exchange  PART 3: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange  5 Ceremonies of Submission: Diplomacy in a Mughal Register   1\tDiplomacy and Mughal Court Culture   2\tThe Companies and Khilʾat   3\tDiplomatic Communication and Self-Representation    6 Gratifying Mughal Tastes: Company Gift-Giving Strategies   1\tLocal Tastes and Global Gifts   2\tGifts and Interaction Ritual   3\tGift-Giving and Ethnographic Discourse  PART 4: The Birth of Company Settlements    7 ‘Safe Habitations’: Colonial Settlement in Ceylon and Madras   1\t‘Under Your Owne Command’: The Settling of Madras   2\t‘A Permanent Colony’: Establishing Dutch Power on Ceylon    8 Governing Pluriform Populations: Company Rule in an Asian Setting   1\tThe Eic and Mestization   2\tCultures of Governance: The Case of Madras   3\tGoverning “Others”: Voc Rule on Ceylon    Conclusion  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210829979991,"sku":"9789004471696","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethnography-and-encounter-the-dutch-and-english-in-seventeenth-century-south-asia-9789004471696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}