Written culture in a colonial context

Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900

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Adrien Delmas
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Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900

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Table of Contents

Foreword: Writing at Sea / Isabel Hofmeyr
Introduction: the written word and the world / Adrien Delmas
Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: the Libyco-Berber example / Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
From pictures to letters: the early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century / Patrick Johansson
Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: archive and representation in 19th century Araucanía / André Menard
Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries / Hervé Pennec
From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century / Adrien Delmas
Towards an archaeology of globalisation: readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological-political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th-17th centuries) / Fabián Javier Ludueña Romandini
Charlevoix and the American savage: the 18th-century traveller as moralist / David J. Culpin
Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn
Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington
Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub
To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel
Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo
The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda
On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald
Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.

Edition Notes

Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008.

Previously published: UCT Press, 2011.

Includes index.

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Boston
Series
African history -- v. 2, African history (Brill Academic Publishers) -- v. 2.

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Dewey Decimal Class
302.2/24409
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P211.3.A35 W75 2012, P211.3.A35W75 2012

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p. cm.

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OL25116027M
ISBN 13
9789004223899
LCCN
2011047480
OCLC/WorldCat
762374017

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