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Written culture in a colonial context : Africa and the Americas, 1500 - 1900 / ed. by Adrien Delmas ...

Delmas, Adrien [Hrsg.] ; Penn, Nigel, 1956- [Hrsg.]

Conference ; (Cape Town) : 2008.12.

Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2012

XXXII, 379 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

Englisch

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.

Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008

Erscheint: 01. Februar 2012

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

978-90-04-22389-9 ((pbk.) No price)

978-90-04-25524-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

015996487

675764459

OCoLC: 838785884     

OCoLC: 779452970 (aus SWB)     

Konferenzschrift, 2008, Kapstadt | Konferenzschrift, XX.12.2008, Kapstadt

EP 13060  | AP 14700  | LB 18000  | LB 33999  | LB 53000  | NB 5600  | NQ 9300  | AP 13300      Ähnliche Literatur

P211.3.A35

302.224409 ; 302.2/24409

Basisklassifikation: 73.64 (Sprache; Kommunikation) <Ethnologie> ; 05.20 (Kommunikation und Gesellschaft)

*Afrika ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte 1500-1900 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift      Zum Register

*Amerika ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte 1500-1900 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift      Zum Register

*USA ; Afrika ; Schrift ; Kulturkontakt ; Schriftliche Kommunikation ; Schriftlichkeit ; Kolonialismus ; Geschichte 1500-1900 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Written communication -- Africa -- History -- Congresses ; Written communication -- America -- History -- Congresses ; Communication and culture -- Africa -- History -- Congresses ; Communication and culture -- America -- History -- Congresses ; Cultural relations -- History -- Congresses ; Africa -- Colonization -- History -- Congresses ; America -- Colonization -- History -- Congresses

Written communication / Africa / History / Congresses ; Written communication / America / History / Congresses ; Communication and culture / Africa / History / Congresses ; Communication and culture / America / History / Congresses ; Cultural relations / History / Congresses ; Africa / Colonization / History / Congresses ; America / Colonization / History / Congresses

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