%0 Book
%T Written culture in a colonial context: Africa and the Americas, 1500 - 1900
%E Delmas, Adrien
%E Penn, Nigel
%S African history 2
%D 2012
%I Brill
%C Leiden [u.a.]
%@ 9789004223899
%G English
%F 1615306889
%O ed. by Adrien Delmas ...
%O Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008
%X 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
%L 302.224409
%K Written communication
%K Africa
%K History
%K America
%K Communication and culture
%K Cultural relations
%K Colonization
%K Written communicationAfricaHistoryCongresses
%K Written communicationAmericaHistoryCongresses
%K Communication and cultureAfricaHistoryCongresses
%K Communication and cultureAmericaHistoryCongresses
%K Cultural relationsHistoryCongresses
%K AfricaColonizationHistoryCongresses
%K AmericaColonizationHistoryCongresses
%9 Text
%9 Konferenzschrift-2008-Kapstadt
%9 Konferenzschrift-XX.12.2008-Kapstadt