LEADER 06127 am 22009733u 450 001 9910213858503321 005 20230802010946.0 010 $a1-920499-16-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001196744 035 $a(MH)012849254-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001083957 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12472908 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001083957 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11021537 035 $a(PQKB)10428868 035 $a(OCoLC)865508947 035 $a(ScCtBLL)79612d8f-1aa7-404d-879b-3d59b2406000 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/25994 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001196744 100 $a20110926d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWritten culture in a colonial context $eAfrica and the Americas, 1500-1900 /$fedited by Adrien Delmas and Nigel Penn$b[electronic resource] 210 $aCape Town $cUCT Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (xxxi, 364 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aPapers presented at a conference held at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008. 311 $a9781919899167 311 $a1-919895-26-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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 ; translated from the French by Sarah Townsend -- From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century / Adrien Delmas ; translated from the French by Christine Bull -- 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 -- 327 $aCharlevoix 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 -- 327 $aOccurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa. 330 $a"Ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. 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