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008 111115s2012 maua 101 0 eng c
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050 00 $aP211.3.A35$bW75 2012
082 00 $a302.2/24409$223
245 00 $aWritten culture in a colonial context :$bAfrica and the Americas, 1500-1900 /$cedited by Adrien Delmas, Nigel Penn.
260 $aBoston :$bBrill,$c2012.
300 $axxxii, 379 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aAfrican history ;$vv. 2
500 $aPapers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008.
500 $aPreviously published: UCT Press, 2011.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aForeword: 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.
650 0 $aWritten communication$zAfrica$xHistory$vCongresses.
650 0 $aWritten communication$zAmerica$xHistory$vCongresses.
650 0 $aCommunication and culture$zAfrica$xHistory$vCongresses.
650 0 $aCommunication and culture$zAmerica$xHistory$vCongresses.
650 0 $aCultural relations$xHistory$vCongresses.
651 0 $aAfrica$xColonization$xHistory$vCongresses.
651 0 $aAmerica$xColonization$xHistory$vCongresses.
700 1 $aDelmas, Adrien.
700 1 $aPenn, Nigel.
830 0 $aAfrican history (Brill Academic Publishers) ;$vv. 2.