Majestic Pirates, lorchas and other junks: the depiction of ships in Mendes Pinto's Peregrinação

Accepted Paper

Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)

Paper short abstract

This paper analyzes the representation of asia-pacific ships and sailors in the 1614 Peregrinação, by Fernão Mendes Pinto. This analysis aims to shed light over the ways Pinto portrays the non European ships in order to convey or not an image of European superiority.

Paper long abstract

This paper analyzes the representation of asia-pacific ships and sailors in the 1614 Peregrinação, by Fernão Mendes Pinto. This analysis aims to shed light over the ways Pinto portrays the non European ships in order to convey an image of European superiority or to communicate a more contradictory representation of equal capacities.

Panel P23
The eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Session 1

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