European Visions: American Voices
Edited by Kim Sloan
British Museum Research Publication 172
ISBN 978 086159 172 5
© The Trustees of the British Museum 2009
Notes on the contributors, abstracts of their papers and recent publications, with an introduction by Kim Sloan
Keynote Paper: Roanoke’s
Achievement
Karen Kupperman
Section 1: Economic and Cultural Contexts
Introduction and Summary
Peter Mason
Thomas
Harriot’s Brief and True Report: Knowledge-Making and the Roanoke
Voyage
Stephen Clucas
‘Counterfeited
According to the Truth’: John White, Lucas de Heere, and the Truth
in Clothing
Michael Gaudio
Truth and Artifice in the
Visualization of Native Peoples: from the Time of John White to the
Beginning of the 18th Century
Stephanie Pratt
Section 2: Nature and Natural History
Introduction
and Summary
Florike Egmond
Elizabethan
London’s Naturalists and the Work of John White
Deborah Harkness
Don’t Eat, Don’t
Touch: Roanoke Colonists, Natural Knowledge, and Dangerous Plants
of North America
Please note the title of this paper
has been corrected since the hard-copy book version was printed in
March 2009
Karen Reeds
Section 3: New Visions of a New World
Introduction
and Summary
Kim Sloan
Conservation of John White’s
Watercolours
Alice Rugheimer
Analysis
of John White’s Pigments
Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook and Antony Simpson
John White’s
Materials and Techniques
Timea Tallian
‘A Kind of
Gentle Painting’: Limning in 16th-Century England
Katherine Coombs
Section 4: American History
Introduction
and Summary
Peter C. Mancall
Lost
Colonists and Lost Tribes
Michael Leroy Oberg
John White and
British Antiquity: Savage Origins in the Context of Tudor
Historiography
Sam Smiles
Serialised
Virginia: the Representational Format for Comparative Ethnology, c.
1600
Ernst van den Boogaart
Texts, Images and the Perception of ‘Savages’ in early Modern
Europe: What we can Learn from White and Harriot
Joan-Pau Rubiés
Past, Present,
and Future: Exploring and Restoring Native Perspectives in the
Chesapeake
Audrey Horning
Image: John White, A Festive Dance
(detail), North America, around AD 1585-93