@Book{1615306889,
editor="Delmas, Adrien
and Penn, Nigel",
title="Written culture in a colonial context: Africa and the Americas, 1500 - 1900",
series="African history 2",
year="2012",
publisher="Brill",
address="Leiden [u.a.]",
keywords="Written communication; Africa; History; America; Communication and culture; Cultural relations; Colonization; Written communicationAfricaHistoryCongresses; Written communicationAmericaHistoryCongresses; Communication and cultureAfricaHistoryCongresses; Communication and cultureAmericaHistoryCongresses; Cultural relationsHistoryCongresses; AfricaColonizationHistoryCongresses; AmericaColonizationHistoryCongresses",
contents="Foreword: Writing at Sea Isabel Hofmeyr",
abstract="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-Lo{\"{\i}}c 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 Araucan{\'{\i}}a / Andr{\'e} Menard -- Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries / Herv{\'e} 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) / Fabi{\'a}n Javier Ludue{\~{n}}a 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 Jos{\'e} 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 / Jos{\'e} Emilio Buruc{\'u}a",
note="ed. by Adrien Delmas ...",
note="Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008",
isbn="9789004223899",
language="English"
}