Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /
| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
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| Други автори: | Delmas, Adrien., Penn, Nigel. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Серия: |
African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ;
v. 2. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- 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.