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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns

Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns

Voigt, Lisa

Hardcover

Caribbean, Latin American & South American ArtGeneral SociologySouth American History

ISBN10: 1477310509
ISBN13: 9781477310502
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Dec 13 2016
Pages: 237
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns' diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies' mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances.

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