ISBN:
9789004223899
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxii, 379 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Series Statement:
African history 2
Series Statement:
African history
DDC:
302.2/24409
Keywords:
Written communication Congresses History
;
Written communication Congresses History
;
Communication and culture Congresses History
;
Communication and culture Congresses History
;
Cultural relations Congresses History
;
Africa Congresses Colonization
;
History
;
America Congresses Colonization
;
History
;
Konferenzschrift XX.12.2008
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Konferenzschrift XX.12.2008
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Konferenzschrift XX.12.2008
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Konferenzschrift XX.12.2008
;
USA
;
Afrika
;
Schrift
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Schriftliche Kommunikation
;
Schriftlichkeit
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte 1500-1900
Abstract:
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
Note:
Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008
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Previously publ. UCT Press, 2011
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Includes index
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Foreword: Writing at Sea
,
Introduction: the written word and the world
,
Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: the Libyco-Berber example
,
From pictures to letters: the early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century
,
Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: archive and representation in 19th century Araucanía
,
Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries
,
From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century
,
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)
,
Charlevoix and the American savage: the 18th-century traveller as moralist
,
Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description'
,
Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910
,
Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century
,
To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal
,
Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics
,
The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812)
,
On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century
,
Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture
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