Written culture in a colonial context : Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900
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Written culture in a colonial context : Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900
（African history, v. 2）
Brill, 2012
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Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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 letter s: 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 economies / 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