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August 5, 2009
Michael Gaudio Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 232 pp.; 79 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816648474)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.76

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Engraving has long been part and parcel of the European enterprise of ethnographic knowledge. Indeed, the discovery of the Americas occurred within decades of the development of copper-plate engraving. By the late sixteenth-century, engraving was one of several technologies that Europeans saw as distinguishing themselves from New World “savages,” precisely because these technologies enabled Europeans to acquire a grasp on the world that Native peoples seemingly could not achieve. In turn, these technologies, especially those...