Title | Clothing the Enlightened Body: European Dress in India during the Age of Reason |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Mayer, T |
Journal | Purushartha: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
Issue | 31 |
Pagination | 13-33 |
Abstract | During the eighteenth century, Enlightenment notions of human difference
were being shaped by Europe’s commercial and military encounters with the
wider world. These encounters forced Europeans to define the boundaries of
their own identity, based on a wide range of traits observable in other peoples.
Eighteenth-century notions of race, or human difference as it was termed at
the time, were not based on fixed hereditary attributes such as blood and
genetics, but on a complex interplay between physical, moral, and cultural
criteria.
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URL | http://editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouvrage/linde-des-lumieres/ |