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A Curious Case of Ethnographic Cleansing: The First French Interpretations of the Japanese, 1552-1555
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2008
- pp. 45-57
- 10.1353/esp.2008.0006
- Article
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Abstract
This article compares the earliest "ethnographic" accounts of Japan printed in France: canon law professor Jean Macer's 1555 history of the Indies, which both replicates and expurgates Postel's heterodox 1552-1553 Merveilles du monde, which itself translates and interprets the first Jesuit reports sent to Rome by Francis Xavier.
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