Written culture in a colonial context
Subtitle: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900
By: edited by Adrien Delmas, Nigel Penn
Series: African history -- v. 2; African history (Brill Academic Publishers) -- v. 2.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004223899
Subjects: History; Communication and culture; Congresses; Cultural relations; Written communication; Colonization
Notes: Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008.

Previously published: UCT Press, 2011.

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